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Fiji inflation rate (CPI)

Headline All Items consumer price inflation, year-on-year percent, latest published reference month, from the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBoS). Monthly price collection in the eight urban centres of Suva, Lami, Nasinu, Nausori, Lautoka, Nadi, Ba and Labasa; weights from the 2019/2020 Household Income and Expenditure Survey.

Current value3.9 percent (YoY)
In force from2026-05-01
Official sourceFiji Bureau of Statistics — Consumer Price Index release published 1 July 2026 (posted under the title 'CONSUMER PRICE INDEX – June 2026' but reporting MAY 2026 data): All Items CPI for May 2026 = 116.3, up 1.6% on April 2026 [114.5]; 'The month-on-month inflation rate [compared with May 2025] stands at 3.9 percent'
Last verified2026-07-23
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Provenancesource fingerprint

What this value means

TWO TRAPS IN THIS SERIES — BOTH CONFIRMED BY READING THE RELEASES. TRAP 1 — THE TITLE IS NOT THE REFERENCE MONTH. The FBoS post title is unreliable and drifts in BOTH directions; the reference month must be read out of the release body ('The All Items CPI for the month of X ...'). Verified at confirmation: the release titled 'June 2026' (published 1 Jul 2026) reports MAY 2026 (title one month AHEAD); the release titled 'March 2026' (published 29 Mar 2026) reports FEBRUARY 2026 (title one month AHEAD); a release titled 'April 2026' (published 28 May 2026) also reports MAY 2026 (title one month BEHIND) and duplicates a separate, correctly-titled 'April 2026' release published 1 May 2026 that reports APRIL 2026. So the archive contains duplicate titles, out-of-order titles and at least one repeated payload. Key the watcher on the reference month parsed from the release TEXT and on the index level, never on the post title or the post date. TRAP 2 — 'MONTH-ON-MONTH' IN FBoS WORDING MEANS YEAR-ON-YEAR. FBoS labels the headline annual rate 'the month-on-month inflation rate [compared with <same month, prior year>]'. The 3.9% above is that figure and IS the year-on-year rate for May 2026 — corroborated independently by the RBF, which cited inflation of 3.9% in Press Release No 14 of 25 June 2026. The genuinely month-over-month change is reported separately as the increase over the previous month (+1.6% for May 2026 over April 2026). A third figure, 'the average annual rate of inflation for the 12 months to May 2026', stands at -1.1% — this is a TRAILING 12-MONTH AVERAGE, not the current annual rate, and it is still NEGATIVE while the current annual rate is +3.9%. Serving -1.1% as 'Fiji's inflation rate' would be wrong by 5 percentage points and wrong in sign. CONTEXT: Fiji flipped out of deflation during 2026. Reference-month YoY: Jan 2026 -2.5%, Feb 2026 -0.5%, Apr 2026 +1.8%, May 2026 +3.9%. Index (2019/20 weights): Jan 110.9, Feb 112.0, Mar 112.1, Apr 114.5, May 116.3. The turn is driven largely by imported fuel; the RBF forecast headline inflation near 6.0% by end-2026. The 1 August 2025 VAT cut from 15% to 12.5% mechanically depressed the index for the twelve months to July 2026 and is a major part of why the trailing-average measure is still negative — expect the base effect to unwind from the August 2026 reference month. NEXT RELEASE: June 2026 reference-month data, expected late July / early August 2026; not published at confirmation.

Earlier values

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2026-01-01-2.5Fiji Bureau of Statistics — CPI release published 30 January
2026-02-01-0.5Fiji Bureau of Statistics — CPI release published 2 March 20
2026-04-011.8Fiji Bureau of Statistics — CPI release published 1 May 2026

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