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Inflation rate

How much prices rose over a single year..

1.36 % · Latest reading · Aug 2026

Purchasing power: what cost SAR 100 a year ago costs SAR 101.36 today.

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..

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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

1.4%Aug 2026
-50510
Sep 2016Aug 2026

Shown: the last 120 readings. the published series runs longer: 164 readings starting January 2013.

Down by 0.01% against July 2026, the lowest reading of the year, and falling for 4 consecutive months now.

The last 12 periodic readings

PeriodValue (%) Periodic change
Aug 20261.36▼ 0.01
Jul 20261.37▼ 0.05
Jun 20261.42▼ 0.13
May 20261.55▲ 0.05
Apr 20261.50▼ 0.21
Mar 20261.71▲ 0.12
Feb 20261.59▼ 0.17
Jan 20261.76▼ 0.15
Dec 20251.91▲ 0.17
Nov 20251.74▼ 0.37
Oct 20252.11▲ 0.06
Sep 20252.05▼ 0.07

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.