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Annual Food and Non-Food Inflation
Annual food inflation for September 2025 was recorded at 14.6 percent compared to 14.9 percent in August 2025 (see Figure 2). This means on average prices of food items increased by 14.6 percent between September 2024 and September 2025. This was mainly attributed to price movements in prices of food items such as Cereals (including breakfast mealie meal, roller mealie meal, maize grain, Samp, Wheat Plain Household Flour); Fruits ( Apples, Pineapples, Water melon); Vegetables (Lumanda, Spinach, Cabbage, Cucumber, Sweet Potatoes); Cooking oil and Eggs.
The annual non-food inflation for September 2025 was recorded at 9.0 percent compared to 9.3 percent in August 2025. This outturn was mainly attributed to price movements in prices of non-food items such as Household appliances(Refrigerator, Microwave oven, Heater 2 bar); Pharmaceutical Products (Cafenol, Aspirin, Paracetamol, Medix cough syrup, Magnesium Trisilicate, Fansider);Air Fare Domestic and Single room 3 & 5 star.
Figure 2: Annual Food and Non-Food Inflation, September 2024 -September 2025 (%)
Source: ZamStats, 2025
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