Consumer prices rise 8.01% year on year in Algeria
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Maghrebemergent
In August 2026, consumer prices rose by 1.29% in a month nationally and by 1.21% in Algiers, according to a bulletin from Algeria’s National Statistics Office. Year on year, the increase reached 8.01% in the country and 8.27% in the capital; in Algiers, a kilogram of whole dressed chicken rose from 357.14 to 501.62 dinars.
Consumer prices in Algeria rose by 8.01% between August 2025 and August 2026, according to the National Statistics Office’s August 2026 bulletin. Month on month, the increase was 1.29% nationally and 1.21% in Algiers.
In the capital, the average price of whole dressed chicken jumped by 40.45% in a month, from 357.14 to 501.62 dinars per kilogram. Food prices there rose by 2.61%, while those of fresh agricultural products increased by 4.71%. Eggs became 15.18% more expensive and fresh vegetables 4.54%; fresh fish prices, by contrast, fell by 10.82%.
The 3.9% rate sometimes associated with the bulletin refers to the annual inflation rate in Algiers, calculated by comparing the average for the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026 with that of the previous 12 months. It therefore does not measure the increase between August 2025 and August 2026. In the first eight months of 2026, prices rose by 5.71% nationally and by 5.88% in Algiers compared with the same period in 2025.
In Algiers, mutton cost 3,000 dinars per kilogram in August, the same as in July, compared with 2,500 dinars a year earlier. Manufactured goods rose by 9.50% year on year and the “Miscellaneous” group by 22.61%, according to the National Statistics Office.
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