Photo: O Pa\u00eds<\/p>\n
Consumer prices in Mozambique rose by 0.16% in September, interrupting two consecutive months of deflation, while year-on-year inflation slowed slightly to 6.31%, the National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estat\u00edstica \u2013 INE) announced today.<\/p>\n
According to the September Consumer Price Index (CPI), the country recorded a slight monthly inflation rate after price drops of 0.28% in August and 0.26% in July.<\/p>\n
The divisions for Restaurants, hotels, cafes and similar establishments, Food and non-alcoholic beverages, and Transport contributed most to the price increase, with positive impacts of 0.07, 0.03, and 0.03 percentage points, respectively.<\/p>\n
Among individual products driving price growth, notable increases occurred in onions (+11.4%), grain maize (+10.4%), second-hand light motor vehicles (+3.9%), horse mackerel \/ carapau (+0.8%), beer consumed away from home (+0.8%), cement (+0.5%), and hamburgers, steak sandwiches (pregos\/bifanas), and similar products (+2.5%). Collectively, these items added approximately 0.19 positive percentage points to monthly inflation.<\/p>\n
Conversely, price drops were recorded in kale\/cabbage (-6.3%), tomatoes (-2.4%), butter beans (-1.1%), head cabbage (-3.9%), cooking oil (-0.4%), coconut (-1.7%), and taps, pipes, valves, joints, elbows, and similar fittings (-3.8%), subtracting approximately 0.13 percentage points from monthly inflation.<\/p>\n
The September CPI further indicates that accumulated inflation since January rose to 4.99% (up from 4.83% recorded through August), while year-on-year inflation decelerated slightly from 6.45% to 6.31%\u2014remaining well within the Government\u2019s target for 2026, which sits around 7%.<\/p>\n
According to INE, Transport and Food and non-alcoholic beverages continue to exert the heaviest upward pressure on prices. In accumulated inflation since January, they contributed 2.09 and 1.55 percentage points, respectively, while on a year-on-year comparison, they recorded price increases of 14.72% and 8.69%.<\/p>\n
Between January and September, the largest contributions to cumulative price increases came from diesel fuel, urban and suburban minibuses (chapas), fresh fish, gasoline, taxi services, onions, and kale\/cabbage, which together accounted for approximately 2.81 percentage points of cumulative inflation.<\/p>\n
City-level analysis reveals that only Chimoio and Tete recorded deflation in September, with price reductions of 0.17% and 0.05%, respectively. All other data collection centers recorded price increases, led by Beira (+0.43%), followed by Inhambane Province (+0.37%), Xai-Xai (+0.32%), Quelimane (+0.25%), Maputo (+0.19%), and Nampula (+0.04%).<\/p>\n
For accumulated inflation since January, Xai-Xai recorded the highest rate at 6.93%, followed by Tete (6.85%) and Inhambane Province (6.36%). Maputo recorded the lowest accumulated rate at 3.65%.<\/p>\n
In year-on-year terms, Tete continues to present the highest inflation rate in the country at 9.35%, followed by Inhambane Province (8.56%) and Xai-Xai (8.33%), whereas Maputo recorded the lowest rate at 4.14%.<\/p>\n
Prices in Mozambique increased by 3.23% across the entire year of 2025, according to previous INE data, while accumulated inflation for 2024 stood at 4.15%\u2014below the 5.3% recorded in 2023 and well beneath the peak of nearly 13% reached in July 2022.<\/p>\n
The Bank of Mozambique recently maintained its benchmark MIMO policy interest rate at 9.25%, continuing to project that inflation will remain in single digits over the medium term.<\/p>\n
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