Tanzania's headline annual inflation decelerated to a 10-month low of 5.9% in October from 6.6% the month before due to a slower growth in food prices, data from the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. Compared to the previous month, Tanzania’s consumer prices fell 0.2% in October, following a 0.4% increase in September.
Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which have a 47.8% weight in the CPI basket used to measure inflation, climbed 7.1% y/y last month, slowing from an 8.5% growth in September. The y/y growth in transport prices (9.5% weight) also eased – to 1.6% from 2.0%. On the other hand, the costs for housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (9.2% weight) rose 10.8% y/y, accelerating from a 10.7% growth in September.
The annual core inflation rate, which excludes the most volatile components food and energy, edged up to 3.2% last month from 3.1% in September.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast in May that Tanzania's inflation would gradually slow to the central bank’s 5% medium-term target. In its October World Economic Outlook, the IMF saw Tanzania’s average annual inflation falling from 7.9% in 2013 to 5.9% this year and further to 4.9% next year.
y/y inflation rate | Oct-14 | Sep-14 | Oct-13 | weight |
Headline inflation | 5.9% | 6.6% | 6.3% | 100.0 |
Food inflation (combining food consumed at home and food consumed in restaurants) | 7.0% | 8.3% | 7.3% | 51.0 |
Non food inflation | 4.6% | 4.6% | 6.1% | 49.0 |
Energy inflation (combining electricity and other fuels for use at home with petrol and diesel) | 11.6% | 12.1% | 10.6% | 5.7 |
Core inflation (all items less food and energy) | 3.2% | 3.1% | 5.7% | 43.3 |
Source: National Bureau of Statistics |
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