With prices flat in the UK, and falling in much of Europe, the fear uppermost in central bankers' minds is that we'll slip into deflation bad news for heavily indebted economies.
So which countries are already seeing falling prices, and which are more at risk of inflation?
Here we look at consumer price index data from the G20 plus other big economies. (Source: Bloomberg.)
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