Food inflation
Laos
What's included in food?
Food CPI - broader than COICOP CP01 (World Bank category)
Historical trend
Comparison between food inflation (dark line) and overall inflation (light line). Data available from 2006.
Recent years
| Year | Food | Overall | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.3% | 13.1% | -1.8 |
| 2024 | 22.4% | 23.3% | -0.9 |
| 2023 | 39.5% | 32.1% | +7.4 |
| 2022 | 21.8% | 22.7% | -0.9 |
| 2021 | 3.0% | 3.7% | -0.7 |
| 2020 | 8.7% | 5.1% | +3.6 |
| 2019 | 4.7% | 3.3% | +1.4 |
| 2018 | 1.2% | 2.0% | -0.8 |
| 2017 | -0.1% | 0.8% | -0.9 |
| 2016 | 4.3% | 1.6% | +2.7 |
Data source: WorldBank | Available from 1997