Saudi Arabia Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the General Authority for Statistics' consumer price index.
1.8%
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Jan 2001 to Aug 2026
Source: OECD prices database (GASTAT) · consumer price index, all items, change on the same month a year earlier, computed from the index.
Saudi Arabia Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Saudi Arabia, the inflation rate fell by 0.5pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 2.3% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.3% in Aug 2021 to 3.3% in Dec 2022.
Its average since Jan 2001 is 2.4%, and the latest reading is below that.
Saudi Arabia is 34th of 43 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- prices
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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