{"id":2000125630,"date":"2026-09-10T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000125630"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:33:59","slug":"rwandas-inflation-rises-to-15-7-in-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandas-inflation-rises-to-15-7-in-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s inflation rises to 15.7% in August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Figures released on Thursday, September 2026, indicate that food and non-alcoholic beverages recorded a 16.3% annual increase in August and rose by 3.7% compared with July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels increased by 20.4% year on year, while prices in the category rose by 0.2% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transport prices increased by 24.2% annually and by 0.2% compared with the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prices in restaurants and hotels rose by 15.6% year on year and increased by 2% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data show that prices of local products increased by 17.4% year on year and by 2.1% month on month. Prices of imported products increased by 10.8% annually and by 0.7% monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fresh product prices increased by 20.9% year on year and by 5.8% compared with July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy prices recorded the largest annual increase, rising by 45.4%, while increasing by 0.2% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the general CPI excluding fresh products and energy increased by 11.5% year on year and by 0.7% month on month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transport prices rose by 24.2% year on year in August 2026, contributing to Rwanda\u2019s overall inflation rate of 15.7%.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) reported that Rwanda\u2019s Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main measure of inflation, rose by 15.7% year on year in August 2026, up from 14.5% in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000125631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[151,69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000125630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000125631,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/arton475.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":667,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/arton475.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/arton475.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/arton475.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/arton475.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/arton475.jpg","width":1000,"height":667}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000125630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000125633,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125630\/revisions\/2000125633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000125631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000125630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000125630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000125630"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000125630"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000125630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}