Consumer prices rose by 5.9% year on year in Equatorial Guinea in September 2026, compared with 5.3% in August, according to data published on Tuesday 20 October by the National Statistics Institute, INEGE.
The average inflation rate reached 3%, compared with 2.8% the previous month, which is the reference threshold set by the Central African Economic and Monetary Community. Core inflation, which excludes energy and fresh food, stood at 3.5%.
Health spending saw some of the largest increases. Pharmaceutical products and herbal medicines rose in price by 15.5% year on year, and hospital services by 12.3%. In food, dairy products rose by 14.1%, coffee, tea and cocoa by 11%, and dried or smoked fish by 9.4%.
Pressure is more intense on imported products, whose inflation rate reached 4.2% in September, compared with 2.8% a year earlier. That for local products slowed to 1.9%, after 3.1% in September 2025.
Differences remain marked between cities. Malabo and Ebibeyin each recorded an average rate of 4.9%, while Bata stood at 1.1%. Transport rose by 3.6% nationally, driven in particular by a 15.4% increase in the price of cars.