Egypt Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
14.5%
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Jan 2011 to Aug 2026
Source: IMF consumer price index (CPI, EGY.CPI._T.YOY_PCH_PA_PT.M), from CAPMAS, Egypt's statistics agency · all items, change on the same month a year earlier as the IMF publishes it, to one decimal place, monthly.
Egypt Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Egypt, the inflation rate rose by 2.5pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 12.0% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 5.5% in Nov 2021 to 37.9% in Sep 2023.
Its average since Jan 2011 is 14.3%, and the latest reading is above that.
Egypt is 4th of 58 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- consumer
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
This is the IMF's all-items consumer price index for Egypt.
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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