The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) rose by 1.2% year-on-year in Senegal in August 2026, according to the monthly report published by the ANSD.
This trend was primarily driven by price increases in food and non-alcoholic beverages (+1.4%), restaurant and accommodation services (+2.2%), personal care, social protection, and miscellaneous goods (+2.5%), as well as transport goods and services (+1.7%).
Health-related prices also rose by 2.0%, and clothing and footwear prices by 1.1%, while prices for alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and narcotics saw a 12.6% increase.
However, this rise was tempered by a 0.9% decline in prices for goods and services related to housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuels.
Core inflation – excluding energy and fresh produce – stood at 1.2% year-on-year. By product origin, prices for local products rose by 1.8%, while prices for imported products fell by 0.6%.
On a month-on-month basis, consumer prices increased by 2.0% in August, driven mainly by a 3.9% rise in prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages and a 2.1% increase in transport goods and services.
In the transport sector, the 2.1% increase is driven notably by a 5.0% rise in fuel prices – following adjustments at the pump – as well as higher fares for road passenger transport (+2.4%) and air passenger transport (+5.9%).
By economic zone, annual price trends range from -0.2% in the South-Central zone (Kaolack) to +1.9% in the West zone, which includes Dakar and accounts for 41.4% of the national weighting.
Within the UEMOA area, average annual inflation stood at 1.2%. Mali (+2.8%) and Burkina Faso (+2.3%) recorded the largest increases, while Niger saw a 2.0% decline in consumer prices.
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