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South Africa CPI Inflation, Headline, Year on Year (Monthly, NSA, Stats SA)

% · Monthly · Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

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Consumer Price Index, all urban areas, headline (all items): the change on the same month a year earlier, as Stats SA publishes it in Table B2 of its monthly release (index Dec 2024=100). History is the newest release's window, from January four years back.

Source: Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), Consumer Price Index (P0141), September 2026, Table B2, accessed 2026-11-11. Processed by Statistics of the World.

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Series-wide coverage: 2022-01-01 to 2026-09-01. SOTW publication: 2026-11-11T08:45:25.771557+00:00.

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  "access_note": "Stats SA's web pages challenge automated clients (Imperva); SOTW reads the release PDF at its fixed address and does not work around the challenge.",
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  "history_rule": "the newest release's Table B2 window (from January four years back); months it no longer carries are removed from the 2022 floor on",
  "rights_scope": "Stats SA copyright notice in every P0141 release: users may apply the information as they wish with Stats SA acknowledged as the source of the basic data and their own processing stated.",
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