Prices in Mozambique rose by 0.16% in September, interrupting two consecutive months of deflation, while annual inflation slowed slightly, to 6.31%, today released the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
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09/10/2026
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Oprices in Mozambique rose by 0.16% in September, interrupting two consecutive months of deflation, while annual inflation slowed slightly to 6.31%, today the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
According to the Consumer Price Index (IPC) for September, the country experienced slight monthly inflation after price drops of 0.28% in August and 0.26% in July.
The divisions of Restaurants, hotels, cafes and the like, Food and non-alcoholic beverages and Transport were the ones that most contributed to the rise in prices, with positive impacts of 0.07, 0.03 and 0.03 percentage points, respectively.
Among the products that most boosted the increase in prices are onion, which rose 11.4%, grain maize (10.4%), second-hand light cars (3.9%), horse mackerel (0.8%), beer consumed outside the house (0.8%), cement (0.5%) and hamburgers, nails, bifanas and similar products (2.5%). Together, these products contributed about 0.19 percentage points positive for monthly variation.
On the contrary, there were falls in cabbage prices (6.3%), tomatoes (2.4%), butter beans (1.1%), cabbage (3.9%), food oil (0.4%), coconut oil (1.7%), taps, tubes, valves, joints, curves and similar products (3.8%), removing about 0.13 percentage points from monthly inflation.
The CPI of September also indicates that inflation accumulated since January has increased to 4.99%, compared to 4.83% recorded until August, while annual inflation has slowed slightly from 6.45% to 6.31%, within the government forecast to 2026, which is around 7%.
According to the INE, transport and food and non-alcoholic beverages remain the divisions with the highest price pressure. In accumulated inflation, they contributed by 2.09 and 1.55 percentage points, respectively, while in the annual comparison they recorded price increases of 14.72% and 8.69%.
Between January and September, the biggest contributions to the accumulated rise in prices came from diesel, semi-collective urban and suburban passenger transport, fresh fish, gasoline, taxi, onion and kale services, responsible for about 2.81 percentage points of accumulated inflation.
The analysis by cities shows that only Chimoio and Tete registered deflation in September, with price reductions of 0.17% and 0.05%, respectively. In the other collection centers there were price increases, led by Beira, with 0.43%, followed by the province of Inhambane (0.37%), Xai-Xai (0.32%), Quelimane (0.25%), Maputo (0.19%) and Nampula (0.04%).
In inflation accumulated since January, Xai-Xai has the highest rate, with 6.93%, followed by Tete (6.85%) and Inhambane (6.36%). Maputo has the lowest cumulative rate, with 3.65%.
Similarly, Tete continues to have the highest inflation in the country, with 9.35%, followed by Inhambane (8.56%) and Xai-Xai (8.33%), while Maputo has the lowest rate of 4.14%.
Prices in Mozambique increased by 3.23% throughout the year by 2025, according to previous data from the INE, while accumulated inflation of 2024 stood at 4.15%, below 5.3% recorded in 2023 and at a peak of almost 13% reached in July 2022.
The Bank of Mozambique has recently maintained the MIMO monetary policy interest rate at 9.25%, continuing to predict that inflation will remain at one digit in the medium term.