Looking at South Africa's latest inflation numbers in more detail
Category: Cost of living, economics, finance
Date: 5 July 2022
Date: 5 July 2022
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We take a look at South Africa's latest inflation numbers and break it down per main product category as well as inflation per province for May 2022.
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So lets take a look at the latest consumer price index (CPI) numbers for South Africa in more detail. The rates shown below all shows year on year inflation rate increases (unless specified otherwise). We will start off by looking at the inflation rate for the major project categories in the South African consumer price index basket of goods and services:
Major product categories:
Major product categories:
- Food: 7.8%
- Non-alcoholic beverages: 4.9%
- Alcoholic beverages: 7.4%
- Tobacco: 5.4%
- Clothing: 1.7%
- Footwear: 1.8%
- Housing and utilities:4.9%
- Household contents and services: 4.3%
- Health: 4.9%
- Transport: 15.7%
- Recreation and culture:1.9%
- Education: 4.4%
- Restaurants and hotels: 6.2%
- Miscellaneous goods and services: 3.9%
- All Items: 6,5
Inflation per province for May 2022
- Western Cape: 6.1%
- Eastern Cape: 6.8%
- Northern Cape: 6.8%
- Free State: 6.2%
- KwaZulu-Natal: 6.6%
- North West: 6.8%
- Gauteng: 6.5%
- Mpumalanga: 6.6%
- Limpopo: 7.2%