Egypt’s annual inflation slows to 10.3% in December 2025 – CAPMAS

Egypt’s annual inflation rate eased to 10.3 per cent in December 2025 from 23.4 per cent a year earlier, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) standing at 264.2 points. Monthly inflation rose by 0.1 per cent in December, the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) reported on Saturday.

According to CAPMAS, the slowdown reflected lower prices for meat and poultry (1.1 per cent), milk, cheese, and eggs (1.2 per cent), fruit (1.0 per cent), vegetables (2.0 per cent), sugar and sugary foods (0.1 per cent), and household appliances (0.5 per cent).

However, this came despite increases in cereals and bread of 0.1 per cent, oils and fats of 0.3 per cent, coffee, tea, and cocoa of 0.1 per cent, electricity, gas, and other fuels of 1.6 per cent, private transport expenditure of 0.4 per cent, and transport services of 0.1 per cent.

Meanwhile, food and beverages declined by 0.8 per cent. At the same time, monthly increases were recorded in housing, water, electricity, gas and fuels (1.5 per cent), furniture and household equipment (0.9 per cent), health care (0.5 per cent), transport (0.2 per cent), culture and recreation (0.6 per cent), restaurants and hotels (0.9 per cent), and miscellaneous goods and services (0.9 per cent).

On an annual basis, food and beverages rose by 0.9 per cent. In addition, other notable annual increases were recorded in housing, water, electricity, gas and fuels (22.5 per cent), health care (23.9 per cent), transport (21.1 per cent0, communications (0.5 per cent), education (10.0 per cent), restaurants and hotels (13.0 per cent), and miscellaneous goods and services (12.2 per cent).

Attribution: Amwal Al Ghad English