Chart assignment
Charts to read and discuss
Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.
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How fast are prices rising in each country?
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Consumer prices in the United States rose 2.9% in 2024, against 3% worldwide. The fastest rise was 219.9% in Argentina, then South Sudan (91.4%) and Türkiye (58.5%); at the other end, prices in Afghanistan fell 6.6%. Search 176 countries and territories. Each figure is the change in a country's consumer price index over the year, from its own statistics office; countries that hadn't reported 2024 are left out.
Questions to discuss
- In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
- Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
- Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators: Inflation, consumer prices (annual %) (CC BY 4.0 (credit the World Bank)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2024
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