Nigeria Verbraucherpreise

Nigeria’s annual inflation rate moderated to 15.15% in December 2025, the softest since November 2020, from the revised 17.33% in the prior month, after the statistics office revised its calculation method. The CPI now uses a 12-month 2024 average as the reference (100), instead of December 2024 alone, preventing an artificial spike in year-on-year inflation. Under the previous methodology, the agency had projected inflation would have surged to 31.2% in December. This is coming after it changed the base year from 2009 to 2024 earlier in 2025. Food, the largest category in the inflation basket, eased for the fifth month to 10.84% in December from the revised 14.21% in November. The core inflation rate, which strips out the volatile prices of agricultural produce and energy, slowed for the sixth month to 18.63% in December 2025, down from the revised 20.59% in November. On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose by 0.54%, following a 1.22% increase in the prior month.