Latin American Inflation by Decade,
Average annual change in CPI
Country 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990—95
Argentina 3 7 -3 0 36 31 21 142 787 43
Bolivia 17 69 6 20 203 12
Brazil -2 7 3 2 13 21 45 37 605 1270
Chile 8 6 2 7 18 38 27 175 20 19
Columbia 20 12 2 4 13 7 12 21 24 25
Costa Rica 10 2 2 11 27 19
Cuba 2 4 -2 -1 10 1 NA NA NA NA
Dominican Republic 10 1 2 11 26 16
Ecuador 15 2 4 13 37 40
El Salvador 10 3 1 11 19 13
Guatemala 11 1 1 10 15 16
Haiti 0 3 12 7 19
Honduras 6 2 2 8 8 21
Mexico 7 62 -2 2 11 8 3 17 69 12
Nicaragua 15 5 4 14 5121 749
Panama 6 1 1 7 2 1
Paraguay 25 33 3 13 22 17
Peru 11 -2 1 15 8 9 32 1224 113
Uruguay 1 5 17 48 59 63 62
Venezuela 3 7 -4 -3 8 2 1 9 25 45
Source: Thorp, Rosemary, Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century.
(Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press. 1998.)