Food inflation
% change from a year earlier, food prices
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- Highest to lowest · Show lowest first
- Countries
- 9 of 54 have data · 45 without data
- Period
- Latest figures range from Aug 2026 to Sep 2026.
- Source
- Our collectors · monthly
Countries’ latest figures come from different months. Each row shows its own month.
- Core and food inflation definitions differ by country; see per-country notes.
- Countries whose latest figure is more than a year older than the newest are left out.
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| Rank | Country | Value (%) | Month | Change from previous figure | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇷🇼 Rwanda+ compare | 16.3% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| 2 | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia+ compare | 14.9% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| 3 | 🇦🇴 Angola+ compare | 9.94% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| 4 | 🇰🇪 Kenya+ compare | 9.5% ↑ 0.5 pts from previous figure | Sep 2026 | ↑ 0.5 pts | + compare |
| 5 | 🇹🇳 Tunisia+ compare | 7.8% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| 6 | 🇧🇼 Botswana+ compare | 5.9% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| 7 | 🇿🇲 Zambia+ compare | 5.8% ↓ 0.2 pts from previous figure | Sep 2026 | ↓ 0.2 pts | + compare |
| 8 | 🇳🇦 Namibia+ compare | 4% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| 9 | 🇹🇿 Tanzania+ compare | 3.7% | Aug 2026 | — | + compare |
| Median | 7.8% | median of shown |
“—” in the change column means there is no earlier figure to compare with.
45 countries have no figure and are not ranked
Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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Currencies & Rates
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Economy & Prices
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- Core inflation
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- Agriculture share of GDP
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- Services share of GDP
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Trade & Resources
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- Remittances
- Terms of trade
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