RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s inflation fee recorded a fall of 0.3 % on a month-to-month foundation, dropping to 1.8 % in January 2026 from 2.1 % in December 2025. The annual inflation fee additionally recorded a drop of 0.2 % when it fell to 1.8 % from 2 % in January 2025, in line with the statistical report launched on Sunday by the Basic Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).
The annual inflation fee is pushed by a 4.2 % improve in housing, water, electrical energy, fuel, and different gasoline costs, along with a 1.5 % improve in transportation prices and one % improve in restaurant and lodging companies.
The authority defined that residential rents have been probably the most important driver of inflation, with precise rents rising by 5.2 % year-on-year. Costs for passenger transport companies additionally elevated by 6 % whereas meals and beverage costs rose by 1 %.
Private care and different items and companies noticed a 7.9 % improve, pushed by greater than 28 % rise in jewellery and watch costs. Insurance coverage and monetary companies rose by 3.3 % and recreation, sports activities, and tradition by 2.3 %, fueled by a 3.7 % improve in vacation costs. Training costs rose by 1.6 %, and meals and drinks by 0.2 %. Conversely, costs for furnishings and family home equipment fell by 0.3 % and healthcare by 0.1 %.
On a month-to-month foundation, the Shopper Worth Index (CPI) rose 0.2 % in January 2026 in comparison with December 2025, supported by a 0.5 % improve in housing, water, electrical energy, and gasoline costs, pushed by a 0.5 % rise in precise housing rents. The transportation sector additionally noticed a 0.2 % month-to-month improve, and eating places rose by 1 %.
Conversely, meals and beverage costs fell by 0.6 % and the communications and knowledge sector declined by 0.1percent. Costs for training companies, well being, furnishings, family home equipment and routine house upkeep, and tobacco remained comparatively unchanged in January 2026.
The GASTAT report revealed that the wholesale value index within the Kingdom reached 2.9 % throughout January 2026 on an annual foundation, in comparison with the identical month of 2025. This improve is principally attributed to the rise in costs of different transportable items. Costs of different transportable items, excluding steel merchandise, equipment, and gear, rose by 4.9 % in January 2026 in comparison with January 2025.
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This improve was pushed by a 3.9 % rise in refined petroleum product costs and an 18.4 % improve in primary chemical costs. Costs of agricultural and fishing merchandise additionally rose by 4.2 %, on account of a 5.8 % improve in agricultural product costs and a 1.1 % improve within the costs of stay animals and animal merchandise.
The report famous that costs for steel merchandise, equipment, and gear rose by 1.2 % on account of a 5.6 % improve in primary steel costs and a 3.3 % improve in costs for manufactured steel merchandise. Costs for meals merchandise, drinks, tobacco, and textiles additionally rose by 0.3 % pushed by a 0.7 % improve in costs for grain mill merchandise, starch, and different meals merchandise, in addition to a 1.7 % improve in costs for leather-based, leather-based merchandise, and footwear. Conversely, costs for uncooked supplies and minerals fell by 0.1 % on account of a 0.1percent lower in costs for stones and sand.
On a month-to-month foundation, the wholesale value index recorded a rise of 1.5 % throughout January in comparison with December 2025, influenced by the rise in costs of refined petroleum merchandise, primary chemical substances, agricultural and fishing merchandise, meals merchandise, drinks, tobacco and textiles, whereas the costs of uncooked supplies and metals witnessed a slight lower of 0.1 %.
This was the results of the lower in costs of transport gear by 0.2 % and the lower in costs of used equipment for common functions by 0.3 % whereas the costs of uncooked supplies and metals remained steady and didn’t file any important relative change throughout January 2026.
