Inflation rate

How much prices rose over a single year..

القوة الشرائية: السلعة بقيمة 100 ريال قبل عام تُعادل 101.44 ريال حالياً.

A note on the economics: slowing inflation means prices are rising more slowly, not that they have fallen back..

Definition

The change in the cost of living and in the basket of essential consumer goods and services — housing, food, transport and education — against the same period a year earlier..

Business brokerage

It sets the real value of income and what it can buy: any rise in revenue or salary is worth that much less once annual inflation is taken out..

Reading the path

Shown: the last 120 readings. the published series runs longer: 165 readings starting January 2013.

Up by 0.08% against August 2026, and holding below its annual average of 1.62%.

The last 12 periodic readings

Source record

Official data retrieved automatically from GASTAT, and archived daily in the historical record so a reading is kept with its date even if the source revises it later. Figures are never entered by hand, and never changed after publication.