Consumer Price Index – December 2015 (and 2015 average)

Headline consumer price index (CPI for all urban areas) for December was 5,2% in December 2015, up from 4,8% in November 2015.

The Annual average consumer price index  for 2015 (CPI for all urban areas) was 4,6% in 2015 (i.e. the average CPI for all urban areas for 2015 compared with that for 2014). This was 1,5 percentage points lower than the corresponding average of 6,1% in 2014.

Provincial annual inflation rates ranged from 4,5% in Mpumalanga to 5,7% in Free State, with the Western Cape and Gauteng at 5,4% each.

The CPI headline rates over the past few years were 2011: 5,0%, 2012: 5,6% 2013: 5,7 %, 2014: 6,1% and 2015: 4,%.

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