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South Africa Inflation Rate (CPI)

Latest

3.2%

−1.2pp vs prior

2025 · updated 2026-09-07

Inflation Rate (CPI)

1960 to 2025

Source: OECD live prices system · CPI, all items, year on year, monthly. Where the OECD series is unavailable, this falls back to World Bank annual CPI (FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG); the period shown under the figure tells you which is live, a year on its own means the annual fallback.

How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago. The South African Reserve Bank targets 3-6% inflation.