US EditionVenezuela prices soar as 2025 inflation tops IMF forecast and records
- On Friday, the Venezuelan central bank reported full-year inflation in 2025 hit 475%, surpassing the IMF's forecast of 269.9%.
- Tightened US sanctions and political upheaval ahead of Nicolas Maduro's ouster helped drive the 2025 inflation surge, while by 2024 inflation had fallen to 48% under policies credited to Delcy Rodriguez, acting leader.
- Venezuelan households face soaring prices—food rose 532%, rent 340%, healthcare 445% last year—while incomes between $100 and $300 fail to cover basic needs, and Eduardo Sanchez said `This inflation is killing us`.
- A diplomatic thaw promises the U.S. and Venezuelan governments will resume full ties and open the oil sector to private investment.
- The Venezuelan central bank said accumulated inflation for the first two months of 2026 stood at nearly 52%, while Tamara Herrera expects inflation to fall to a little over 100% this year.
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Venezuela Inflation Reaches 475% In 2025
Venezuela’s inflation rate reached 475 percent last year. Official data released by the Central Bank of Venezuela showed that annual inflation accelerated sharply during the past year, rising from 48 percent in 2024 to 475 percent in 2025. Monthly statistics indicated that inflation slowed at the beginning of 2026 after the price increase rate reached 32.6 percent in January, the highest level since January 2023, before easing to 14.6 percent in…
Venezuela Recorded 475% Accumulated Inflation in 2025
The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported that the country recorded an accumulated inflation of 475.28% in 2025. The inflationary process persists in 2026, with the consumer price index experiencing a cumulative increase of 51.96% during the first two months of the year, according to official BCV data released on Friday, March 6. The inflation was 32.6% in January 2026 and 14.6% in February. The BCV also reported the inflation data for each m…
Inflation in Venezuela, which reached 48% in 2024, jumped to 475% in 2025, according to the first official data released by the central bank since November 2024.
At the end of last year, economists estimated that Venezuela was at the threshold of hyperinflation, an episode that the Caribbean country had already experienced between 2017 and 2022.
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