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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4.7 | 15.4 | 9.2 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 7.0 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 3.8 |
| Lesotho | 2.0 | 12.0 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 9.4 | 2.2 | 10.3 | 14.0 | 10.2 | -0.3 | 2.0 | 11.7 | 3.6 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 5.5 | -0.4 | 3.7 |
| Namibia | 6.4 | 11.3 | 5.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 11.3 | 4.0 | 8.2 | 3.9 | 8.0 | 9.9 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 1.5 | 6.4 | 6.6 | 3.3 | |
| Botswana | 6.0 | 6.3 | 14.2 | 15.5 | 7.7 | 12.7 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 9.6 | 3.7 | 11.9 | -2.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.4 | 8.4 | 14.6 | 1.7 | 2.8 |
| इस्वातिनी | 30.4 | 25.3 | 6.6 | 3.2 | 5.3 | 8.7 | 3.5 | 6.4 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 4.7 | 0.8 | 8.4 | 5.9 | 2.8 |