Turkey had the highest inflation rate at 10.7%, followed by Mexico at 6.7%.
The UK outstripped every other G7 economy, with the highest inflation rate in five years.
That's a little higher than expected, and the highest inflation rate since February 2012.
Venezuela already has Latin America's highest inflation rate, at 25 percent in 2009.
Greece had the highest inflation rate in the currency zone, at 2%.
Venezuela has one of the world's highest inflation rates (see chart).
Spain has the highest inflation rate in the euro zone, making its goods increasingly uncompetitive abroad.
Hungary has the lowest growth and the highest inflation in central Europe; its currency, the forint, has been sliding.
Vietnam now has Asia's highest inflation rate, a fact that government censors have asked local journalists to stop reporting.
Under this arrangement, the state pension is certain to rise annually by whichever is highest, inflation, wage inflation or 2.5%.
During an oil boom that is lifting the incomes of both rich and poor, Venezuela is grappling with Latin America's highest inflation rate, about 16percentt.
