The city of Inhambane is the most expensive in the country, according to data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The accumulated variation of inflation in the last three months of this year, in eight cities, indicates that Inhambane registered 6.37 percent against the national average of 3.32 percent.
The study does not include the cities of Pemba, Lichinga and Matola, but reveals that the basic basket over the last three months, in Maputo, Xai-xai, Beira, Chimoio, Tete, Quelimane and Nampula are below the city of Inhambane.
“In this period of the first quarter, compared to the same period, there is an upward trend in prices. Therefore, the accumulated variation of the price index from 2022 to 2023 in Inhambane province was 6.37% against 3.32% which is the national average. If we analyse the cumulative price variation in the eight cities of our country that are taken as a sample for the assessment of this index, we can see that Inhambane province has relatively higher inflation than the rest of the territory and is above the national average,” the spokesman for the Council of State Representation Services, Samuel Júnior, said on Wednesday 19 April, citing INE figures.
Products such as fish-carapau, nhemba beans, peanuts, clothing and non-alcoholic beverages are at the top of inflation. “The food and non-alcoholic beverages division had the greatest impact on the cumulative variation by contributing about 6.9 percentage points.”
This study was the dominant theme of the debate held at the sixth ordinary session of the Council of State Representative Services of Inhambane province.
