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Consumer prices · 13 categories · latest 2026-08-01

CoverageHeadline benchmark
Price-series levelsLevels 1–2
Weight levelsNo basket weights
Weight historyNo basket weights
Source detailCOICOP divisions
Series / concepts39 / 13
Period range2010-01-01 to 2026-08-01
Last successful ingest2026-10-07
Last changed vintage2026-10-07
International Monetary Fund Frequencies: M
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Source: International Monetary Fund. Data as of 2026-09-14. Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.

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ZambiaIMF2024-02-01, 2022-03-01confirmedZMB.CPI_CP01_*, ZMB.CPI_CP02_*2026-09-02Single-month index anomaly
Two isolated bad months, neither a rebasing. Food reads 4,755.04 in February 2024 between 464.53 in January and 486.52 in March -- ten times its neighbours, which agree with each other to 4.7% -- and the series carries on climbing steadily afterwards, 491.4, 497.6, 504.8. Alcohol and tobacco has a smaller one of the same shape: 327.44 in March 2022 between 263.83 and 266.86. Both were found by looking at the months either side rather than at the fall, which is why the first pass filed the food one as a base change in March 2024, a month late and with the wrong consequence.