Provincial Annual Inflation Rates, 2022 (%)

A disaggregation of the annual inflation by province shows that the annual inflation during the month under review increased for Central (7.1% from 6.8%), Copperbelt (11.7% from 11.0%), Lusaka (10.2% from 9.3%). The annual inflation slowed down for the following provinces; Eastern (5.0% from 5.2%), Luapula (9.8% from 10.4%), Northern (11.5% from 13.1%), Southern (10.7% from 11.6 %) and Western (10.9% from 11.5%). The provincial annual inflation rate remained unchanged for North-western at 12.7%. (See Table 9). Read more

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Table 9: Provincial Annual Inflation Rates, September 2021-September 2022 (%)

	Central	Copperbelt	Eastern	Luapula	Lusaka	Northern	North- Western	Southern	Western
*Weight*	*107.19*	*219.68*	*88.98*	*50.60*	*283.89*	*65.72*	*32.33*	*109.19*	*42.42*
Sep-21	24.4	23.3	22.0	21.0	21.1	31.3	21.1	16.9	18.9
Oct-21	22.2	21.3	21.1	21.1	20.4	32.2	21.3	16.4	17.4
Nov-21	19.6	20.6	19.9	19.3	17.9	30.7	20.2	13.8	15.8
Dec-21	14.1	18.2	16.4	17.6	16.0	22.5	16.4	13.8	10.6
Jan-22	11.3	18.1	13.6	17.2	15.8	20.0	12.3	12.3	7.2
Feb-22	13.1	17.9	12.0	16.2	14.8	14.1	9.3	12.2	6.8
Mar-22	10.9	16.7	9.2	15.7	13.0	13.5	12.1	11.0	12.6
Apr-22	7.0	15.6	8.7	15.0	10.3	12.9	13.5	10.8	10.4
May-22	6.8	13.8	6.6	13.8	8.0	13.2	13.2	10.5	11.7
Jun-22	6.4	12.3	6.6	11.5	8.2	12.5	13.9	10.9	10.5
Jul-22	6.6	12.0	5.9	11.6	8.7	13.5	12.3	11.5	11.3
Aug-22	6.8	11.0	5.2	10.4	9.3	13.1	12.7	11.6	11.5
Sep-22	7.1	11.7	5.0	9.8	10.2	11.5	12.7	10.7	10.9