Ethiopia inflation rate (CPI)
Headline consumer price inflation, year-on-year percent, latest published month, from the official statistics office.
| Current value | 13.4 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-05-01 |
| Official source | Ethiopian Statistics Service — Consumer Price Index Monthly News Release, May 2026 (Issue No. 35/2018 EFY) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-16 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Reference month May 2026 — the latest published as of 2026-07-16; ESS publishes with a ~5-6 week lag and the June bulletin was not yet out (CPI listing page https://ess.gov.et/price/ last updated 8 July 2026). Country-wide general (headline) inflation 13.4% YoY (food 15.0%, non-food 11.1%), MoM +1.7%. Bulletins label months by Ethiopian fiscal year ('May EFY2018' = May 2026 GC); index reference period Dec 2009 EFY (~Dec 2016 GC) = 100, with a rebase to 2025=100 planned. This 13.4% print is the figure NBE cited when hiking its policy rate to 16% on 13 July 2026. Caution: the ESS site now lives at ess.gov.et (statsethiopia.gov.et did not resolve at verification time), and the May bulletin's own trend table mislabels April as 'May' — per-month figures here are taken from each month's own bulletin summary instead.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-01 | 9.7 | ESS — CPI Monthly News Release, February 2026 (Issue No. 32/ |
| 2026-03-01 | 9.4 | ESS — CPI Monthly News Release, March 2026 (Issue No. 33/201 |
| 2026-04-01 | 11.7 | ESS — CPI Monthly News Release, April 2026 (Issue No. 34/201 |
Get it programmatically
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