Food inflation (year on year)
8.69%▼ 0.22 pts vs Aug 2026
Moçambique (8 cities) · Latest observation Sept 2026
Place:
- Latest
- 8.69
- Change
- −5.53 pts
- High
- 15.94 Mar 2023
- Low
- 4.91 May 2024
- Average
- 9.17
Food inflation (year on year) is 8.69 % (Sept 2026), 5.53 points lower than in Jan 2023.
What is this?
How much more food and non-alcoholic drinks cost than a year earlier.
How to read it
A positive number means prices are higher than a year ago; a falling positive number means prices are still rising, just more slowly.
Unit: %.
What does the data say?
Food inflation (year on year) (Moçambique (8 cities)) is 8.69 % (Sept 2026), 5.53 points lower than in Jan 2023.
Over all 45 observations since Jan 2023, the highest was 15.94 (Mar 2023) and the lowest 4.91 (May 2024).
Why does it matter?
- Households: Erodes the value of wages and savings.
- Businesses: Costs and pricing.
- Government: Real value of spending and debt.
- Investors: Interest rate outlook.
- Mobile money: Nominal transaction values rise with prices without more goods being bought; compare against inflation before reading growth.
Observed facts are above; these are possible implications, not measured effects.
By place
| Place | Latest | Year on year |
|---|---|---|
| Beira | 9.02 % | +18.8% |
| Moçambique (8 cities) | 8.69 % | −26.7% |
| Nampula | 7.62 % | −11.1% |
| Maputo | 5.32 % | −50.2% |
What should I watch?
Data source
- Source
- INE — Índice de Preços no Consumidor (published tables, base 2023=100)
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Observations
- 45 (Jan 2023 – Sept 2026) for Moçambique (8 cities); 4 place in total
- Source published
- 2026-10-09
- Last retrieved
- 2026-10-17
- Method
- Year-on-year percentage change as published by INE (Quadro 11). Read from INE's monthly Excel tables by scripts/ine-cpi.mjs.
- Limitations
- Urban consumer prices only (Maputo, Beira, Nampula and a national index over 8 cities). Not a rural measure.
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