Table 5: Consumer Price Indices: Percent change over the same period of the previous year
ILO Bureau of Statistics, http://laborsta.ilo.org, periodic data, Feb.2009
2008
2009
Region
COUNTRY
AREA
Group
Feb. March
April
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct
Nov.
Dec.
Jan.
Africa
Algeria
All items
4.9
5.3
6.7
6.1
2.6
1.3
2.9
3.5
3.6
Food
7.8
8.5
10.7
9.7
3.0
0.7
4.0
4.3
Benin
Cotonou
All items
2.6
5.7
5.8
7.9
5.9
10.9
15.2
12.0
Food
5.2
11.6
11.4
18.3
18.5
27.3
37.4
29.6
Botswana
All items
9.0
9.9
11.2
12.1
14.4
15.0
15.0
14.0
13.1
15.1
13.7
Food
18.4
18.1
18.5
18.5
18.2
18.5
18.8
20.4
25.1
24.3
25.0
Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
All items
7.1
7.5
7.7
10.9
15.0
11.4
13.9
Food
13.8
16.1
16.8
27.2
39.4
29.1
30.5
Cameroon
All items
6.3
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.7
Food
12.6
9.8
Cape Verde
All items
4.4
4.4
5.8
5.9
7.0
8.0
8.1
9.3
10.2
8.2
Food
7.0
7.1
8.3
9.1
9.8
10.4
10.3
11.8
13.8
8.6
Central African Rep.
Bangui
All items
2.7
4.1
8.4
8.7
9.3
13.5
10.3
11.7
Congo
Brazzaville, Africans
All items
-1.8
2.3
1.5
4.0
Côte d'Ivoire
Abidjan, Africans
All items
2.6
3.5
4.1
5.0
5.2
8.2
9.0
9.6
9.6
Food
5.9
8.1
10.3
10.9
12.1
15.9
14.3
14.8
13.7
Egypt
All items
12.1
14.4
16.4
19.7
20.2
22.2
23.7
21.5
20.2
20.3
18.3
Food
16.8
20.5
22.0
27.0
27.1
29.9
30.9
25.4
25.9
26.4
21.9
Ethiopia
All items
22.9
29.6
29.7
39.0
Food
30.1
39.4
Gabon
Libreville, Africans
All items
5.5
4.2
5.3
4.5
4.7
5.3
5.2
4.9
5.1
5.8
Food
6.1
7.1
8.1
6.8
7.5
10.0
9.2
7.8
7.6
9.6
Ghana
All items
13.2
13.8
15.3
16.9
18.4
18.3
18.1
17.9
17.3
Food
11.2
12.9
13.1
15.8
17.7
17.5
17.6
17.0
15.0
Guinea
Conakry
All items
11.2
13.0
22.9
Guinea-Bissau
Bissau
All items
8.6
5.5
8.3
9.1
13.3
13.9
14.6
12.9
13.0
Food
13.0
9.2
13.1
15.5
21.0
22.4
23.0
18.9
18.8
Lesotho
All items
10.6
10.7
9.5
9.5
9.6
10.5
11.2
12.0
12.0
11.8
Food
18.7
18.1
14.4
14.0
13.8
14.9
15.2
16.7
16.5
15.9
Madagascar
All items
7.1
6.9
6.9
8.0
9.2
10.6
11.3
10.9
10.9
10.1
10.1
Food
10.1
8.3
7.7
9.5
11.2
12.2
12.9
11.9
10.7
9.0
8.6
Malawi
All items
8.0
8.2
8.1
7.9
8.5
8.8
9.1
9.3
9.4
9.6
Food
6.7
6.9
6.4
6.0
6.5
6.6
7.1
7.3
7.4
7.