CAPMAS: Inflation rate up 1.5% in March 2025 - Egyptian Gazette

Food prices push up Egyptian inflation in March

Food prices caused Egyptian inflation to increase in March. Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation accelerated to an annualised 13.6 percent in March, 1.5 percentage points higher than February, according to data from Egyptian statistics agency Capmas. The increase was driven by a near 3 percent increase in food prices. Cereals and bread were up 0.5 percent, vegetables 3 percent and fruit 24 percent. Food prices in Egypt appear to be dive…

CAPMAS: Inflation rate up 1.5% in March 2025 - Egyptian Gazette

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said that the inflation rate recorded 250.6 points in March, marking a 1.5 per cent rise compared to February. The most important reasons behind this uptick in the inflation rate is the increase of the prices of fruits by 23.6 percent, grains by 0.5 percent, seafood by 0.7 percent, meat and poultry by 2.8 per cent, oils by 0.2 percent, and dairy products and milk by 0.3 per cent,…