DRC: Inflation stands at 0.13% on the market

Kinshasa, May 15^th, 2025 (CPA) – The weekly inflation rate in the Democratic Republic of Congo stood at 0.13% on the services and goods market during the second week of May, compared with 0.12% a week earlier, according to a note from the Central Bank of Congo (BCC) covering the period from 2 to 9 May 2025, received by CPA on Wednesday. ‘In the second week of May 2025, the rate of increase in domestic prices put the weekly inflation rate at 0.13%, compared with 0.12% a week earlier,’ reads the document. According to the source, the year-on-year inflation rate reached 9.7%, down significantly on the 21.3% recorded for the same period in 2024. This slowdown is part of a general trend towards price stabilization observed since the start of the year. Food and non-alcoholic beverages, which account for 70.02% of the household basket, contributed 62.75% of the inflation recorded during the period under review, followed by housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, with a contribution of 14.51%. On a year-to-date basis, inflation stood at 3.20%, compared with 5.07% in the same period of the previous year. The BCC forecasts a rate of 7.8% by the end of 2025.