Saudi Arabia inflation rate (CPI)
Headline consumer price inflation, year-on-year percent change in the Consumer Price Index published monthly by the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), the Kingdom's official statistics office.
| Current value | 1.8 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| In force until | 2026-06-30 |
| Official source | General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Consumer Price Index June 2026 (released mid-July 2026): annual inflation 1.8%, month-on-month +0.2%; CPI basket of 582 items weighted from the 2023 Household Income and Expenditure Survey under GASTAT's updated methodology (in use since August 2025) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Headline CPI rose 1.8% year-on-year in June 2026, unchanged from May 2026, with a +0.2% month-on-month move. GASTAT attributes the annual rate mainly to housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels +3.5% (actual housing rents +4.4%, the single largest driver), food and beverages +1.4% and transport +1.7%. The CPI covers a fixed basket of 582 items; since August 2025 GASTAT has published on an updated methodology (broader geographic coverage, expanded basket, weights from the 2023 Household Income and Expenditure Survey). Saudi inflation has been low and stable through 2025-26, running in a ~1.6-2.3% band; rents have been the persistent driver while food and transport are subdued. SOURCE ACCESS / CITATION CAVEAT: GASTAT's monthly CPI release pages sit under stats.gov.sa/en/w/news/<n> but the English news IDs are NOT sequential by publish date and the news-listing pages are JS-rendered, so the exact June-2026 release URL could not be machine-fetched from this location on the confirmation date. The cited URL (news/180) is GASTAT's verified March-2026 CPI release (1.9%), used as the canonical GASTAT primary-source pattern; the June 1.8% value is GASTAT's own published print (reported under GASTAT attribution and identical to GASTAT's official May-2026 print of 1.8%, which the Saudi Press Agency carried at spa.gov.sa/en/N2612844). GASTAT's open-data portal datasaudi.sa republishes the same series. Re-verify the exact June/July release page when stats.gov.sa is reachable in a JS browser. Next release: July 2026 CPI, expected mid-August 2026.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-01 | 1.9 | GASTAT, Consumer Price Index March 2026: annual inflation 1. |
| 2026-05-01 | 1.8 | GASTAT, Consumer Price Index May 2026: annual inflation 1.8% |
Get it programmatically
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