Ethiopia inflation

How to read it

• Annual inflation compares prices this month with the same month a year earlier. It is the headline rate.
• The monthly change compares prices with the previous month. It shows how fast prices are moving now.
• The two can move in opposite directions. The annual rate falls whenever this month’s rise is smaller than the rise in the same month last year, even if prices rose faster than they did the month before.
• A falling inflation rate does not mean falling prices. It means prices are rising more slowly. Prices fall only when the change itself is below zero, as the monthly figure was in November and December 2025.
• Food is the group ESS calls “Food and non-alcoholic beverages”. Non-food is everything else in the basket.

Method

• Every figure is read from the ESS Inflation Report for that month: the annual rates from its Table 1 and the monthly change from its Table 3.
• The figures are national. The reports give no regional or city breakdown.
• Each month shows the value that was first published. Where a later report gives a different value, the first one is kept and the difference is listed below.
• December 2023, January 2024 and April 2024 had no report of their own. Their figures come from the next report. July 2022 to June 2023 come from the 13-month table in the July 2023 report.
• The monthly change for July 2022 is not available. Monthly changes for food and non-food are left out because the reports give them for the current month only.
• In August 2025 ESS widened its price survey from 120 to 200 markets, and it is re-basing the index to August 2025 = 100. Figures on either side of that month may not be strictly comparable.

Differences between reports

A later report sometimes shows a different value for an earlier month. That can be a revision or an error in the later table. This page keeps the first-published value.