Inflation as measured by the annual growth rate of the GDP implicit deflator shows the rate of price change in the economy as a whole. The GDP implicit deflator is the ratio of GDP in current local currency to GDP in constant local currency.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi | 5.2 | 6.0 | 38.9 | 18.8 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 14.3 | 8.0 | 5.3 | 21.3 | 1.0 | 11.4 | -2.9 | 0.9 | 6.0 | 8.5 | 18.3 | 10.9 | 9.9 |
| Kenya | 15.3 | 10.6 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 10.1 | 9.5 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 9.2 | 5.8 | 7.6 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 7.0 | 6.1 | 6.3 |
| Uganda | 44.4 | 11.1 | -1.7 | 5.6 | 9.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 6.7 | 4.4 | |
| Rwanda | 9.9 | 13.5 | 3.3 | 9.0 | 3.2 | 7.2 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 5.0 | 8.2 | -0.6 | 2.5 | 6.7 | 2.9 | 15.8 | 11.9 | 3.8 |
| Tanzania | 3.5 | 22.4 | 8.2 | 6.4 | 9.4 | 12.2 | 10.5 | 9.7 | 6.1 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 6.4 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3.1 |
| South Sudan | 12.9 | 38.8 | 46.5 | 36.5 | -26.7 | 17.7 |