According to data from the National Institute of Statistics, released on Monday at the end of the day, Angolans faced a 27.5 percent rise in prices in December last year, compared to the values of December 2023, while that the index measuring prices rose 1.7 percent in December last year, compared to the previous month.
"The annual variation in December is 27.50 percent, registering an increase of 7.49 percentage points compared to that observed in the same period of the previous year", reads the report on the evolution of prices in Angola, in which it is highlighted that, "comparing the current year-on-year variation [December 2024] with that recorded in the previous month, there is a slowdown of 0.91 percentage points".
In Luanda, the province where prices rose the most in 2024, in December last year, prices were 32.18 percent more expensive than in December 2023, according to INE data, which show an "increase of 6.16 percentage points compared to that observed in the same period of the previous year".