Bahrain inflation rate (CPI)
Bahrain's official monthly Consumer Price Index, general index (all items), base April 2019 = 100, compiled and published by the Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) and released on the Bahrain Open Data Portal under COICOP classification by division and group.
| Current value | 102.8 index points (base April 2019=100); month-on-month +0.39%, year-on-year +2.29% |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-05-01 |
| Official source | Information & eGovernment Authority — Bahrain Open Data Portal, dataset 'Consumer Price Index (CPI) - Division and Group - Index Number' (id 01-consumer-price-index-division-and-group-index-number), COICOP level 0 'Consumers Price Index - CPI', May 2026 = 102.8; dataset base stated as 'Base: April 2019 (=100)'; dataset last processed 30 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Latest official month is MAY 2026: general CPI 102.8 index points on base April 2019 = 100. The value is the INDEX LEVEL, not an inflation rate. The month-on-month (+0.39%) and year-on-year (+2.29%) figures in the unit string are COMPUTED here from the same official series (April 2026 = 102.4; May 2025 = 100.5) — the portal publishes index levels only and does not itself publish a headline inflation rate alongside them, so treat the percentages as derived-from-official rather than officially stated. Recent official monthly levels for context: Jan 2026 102.5, Feb 2026 102.0, Mar 2026 102.4, Apr 2026 102.4, May 2026 102.8; Dec 2025 101.6. Note that April 2026 was flat month-on-month (102.4 from 102.4). PUBLICATION QUIRKS worth knowing: the dataset mixes precisions — pre-2020 and a few 2025 observations carry full floating-point precision (e.g. Jul 2025 = 100.99155064741474) while most recent months are rounded to one decimal; the general index is the record with level = 0 and coicop_code = '0', so any query filtering on level = 1 returns nothing. The dataset is fetchable through the Opendatasoft Explore API v2.1 at https://www.data.gov.bh/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/01-consumer-price-index-division-and-group-index-number/records?where=level%3D0&order_by=-year,-month — note the 'year' field is typed as a date, so string comparisons such as year="2025" fail with IncompatibleTypesInComparisonFilter. Cadence: the portal was last refreshed 30 Jun 2026 with the May figure, i.e. roughly one month plus a few weeks in arrears; June 2026 CPI is the next expected release. Bahrain has no separate statistics ministry — iGA is the national statistical authority.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-01 | 102.4 | Information & eGovernment Authority — Bahrain Open Data Port |
| 2026-04-01 | 102.4 | Information & eGovernment Authority — Bahrain Open Data Port |
Get it programmatically
curl https://mearef.dev/v1/bh/cpi
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