Consumer prices · 108 categories · latest 2026-09-01
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Sources: Information & eGovernment Authority via the Bahrain Open Data Portal (www.data.gov.bh); downloaded on the date recorded for this vintage. Living Inflation Data transformed these data; that transformation is not attributable to iGA. Datasets provided by the iGA via www.data.gov.bh are governed by the Terms of Use available at www.data.gov.bh/pages/terms-and-conditions/. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the iGA is not liable for any damage or loss of any kind caused directly or indirectly by the use of the datasets or any derived analyses or applications. (as of 2026-10-07); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-08-14). Computed here, not published: ratio of the iGA index to the previous month; ratio of the iGA index to the same month one year earlier. Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.
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7 recorded findings for this country, shown exactly as in the full quality register.
| Country | Source | Periods | Status | Series | Found | Detected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain, Kingdom of | IMF | 2020-03-01 | confirmed | BHR.CPI_CP09_* | 2026-09-02 | Possible index rebasing |
| Bahrain's recreation and culture index falls 94.50 -> 71.20 in March 2020 (-24.7%) and keeps falling to 57.5 by November, averaging 0.65x. Unlike the others in this class it does not step and stop -- it declines for eight more months and then recovers to 77.3 by December 2020. A base change does not do that, and the month is the one every recreation index in the world moved in, so the balance of evidence here favours a real collapse in this category rather than a re-reference. Kept confirmed rather than suppressed because that is a judgement about the world, not a measurement from the data. The step is permanent, confined to one division, and not a revision: these values were published this way. What the data CANNOT settle is whether the division was put on a new base by itself or its prices really fell, because both produce exactly this shape and nothing held here separates them -- the series is verified at 100 in the reference period the source declares, which is true either way. The country's headline index barely moves in the same month, which is suggestive and not conclusive: these are mostly light divisions, so a real fall would leave only a small mark on the aggregate. What IS certain is the consequence, because the source's own rates are this index restated -- the published month-over-month and year-over-year figures equal the index ratios at all 388,805 and 370,534 overlapping cells, checked 2026-09-02. So if the step is a re-reference, the source's own rates divide across it, and the reader has to be told. | ||||||
| Bahrain, Kingdom of | iGA Bahrain | 2017-12-01, 2020-04-01, 2020-05-01, 2020-09-01, 2022-01-01, 2025-05-01 | confirmed | BHR.CPI_IGA19_BHR_11_INDEX.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_BHR_9_INDEX.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_1_1_3_INDEX.M +8 more | 2026-10-07 | Single-month index anomaly |
| Every flagged cell is present verbatim in iGA's immutable index export. The national monthly-change export independently repeats the corresponding extreme ratios, including 171.4% for energy in September 2020 and -39.2% for fish in May 2025. Each index returns close to its prior level in the following month, so these are not reference-base changes. Nationality rates are derived and do not corroborate independently. The values remain unchanged but are annotated as isolated source anomalies or extreme volatility. | ||||||
| Bahrain, Kingdom of | iGA Bahrain | 2020-03-01, 2020-04-01, 2020-05-01, 2020-06-01, 2021-01-01, 2024-10-01, 2025-12-01, 2026-02-01 | suppressed | BHR.CPI_IGA19_BHR_9_INDEX.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_11_2_INDEX.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_4_5_INDEX.M +4 more | 2026-10-07 | Possible index rebasing |
| iGA's separate monthly-index and monthly-change exports publish these large movements independently and agree at every flagged national cell to the source's one-decimal rounding. The recurring package-holiday movements, 2020 recreation/accommodation/energy changes, 2024 transport-services fall and 2025 electricity fall therefore are not parser joins or silent base splices. The Bahraini recreation rate is derived from the exact published index and is not independent evidence, but the raw nationality export contains the same level. Preserve these source-published movements and identify them as volatile categories, not reference-base changes. | ||||||
| Bahrain, Kingdom of | iGA Bahrain | 2019-11-01, 2020-08-01, 2023-01-01 | confirmed | BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_11_2_YOY.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_1_1_5_MOM.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_1_2_2_MOM.M | 2026-10-07 | Published rate disagrees with its index |
| The separate iGA exports publish all three disagreements exactly: mineral waters MoM is 904.5% in November 2019 while the index implies 0.4%; accommodation YoY is +39.8% in August 2020 while the index implies -39.8%; oils and fats MoM is +0.9% in January 2023 while the index implies about -0.9%. Neighbouring periods align normally. These are source errors, not parser field or period joins. Preserve both published measures and warn rather than replacing either one. | ||||||
| Bahrain, Kingdom of | iGA Bahrain | 2018-09-01, 2018-10-01, 2022-01-01, 2023-01-01 | confirmed | BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_12_6_INDEX.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_5_1_INDEX.M, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NON_10_INDEX.M +3 more | 2026-10-07 | Possible index rebasing |
| The immutable iGA exports publish each step exactly. National financial services moves to exactly 100 in September 2018 and stays there; furniture steps down in October 2018 and stays near the new level. Non-Bahraini education and miscellaneous goods step down together in January 2022, and health and transport do so in January 2023. The latter four have no independently published rates; Living Inflation Data's derived rates only restate the levels. iGA does not identify a base or classification transition for these individual series. Retain and warn: comparability across each boundary is not established. | ||||||
| Bahrain, Kingdom of | iGA Bahrain | whole series | confirmed | BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_11_2_INDEX.*, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_12_4_INDEX.*, BHR.CPI_IGA19_NAT_4_2_INDEX.* | 2026-10-07 | Impossible zero value |
| iGA publishes zero for accommodation services, imputed rentals and social protection before those categories begin. The monthly export contains 28 zero placeholders per series from January 2017 through April 2019; the annual export contains zero for 2011-2018. These impossible index levels are retained because they are source-published, but readers must not treat them as prices or derive rates across them. | ||||||
| Bahrain, Kingdom of, Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of, Djibouti, Gabon, Pakistan | IMF | 2019-12-01, 2025-05-01, 2017-01-01, 2009-12-01, 2014-06-01, 2014-07-01, 2019-04-01, 2012-07-01 | confirmed | BGD.CPI_CP09_*, BHR.CPI_CP09_*, COD.CPI_CP07_* +5 more | 2026-09-02 | Single-month index anomaly |
| Eight single bad months in eight countries, one division each, with nothing tying them together beyond the shape and the source. Kept as one entry rather than eight near-identical ones, with every case named so none is hidden behind a summary: Bangladesh recreation 149.90 in Dec 2019 between 98.1 and 98.6; Bahrain recreation 101.7 in May 2025 between 64.3 and 67.6; DR Congo transport 98.1 in Jan 2017 between 130.5 and 131.2; Congo communication 111.2 in Dec 2009 between 72.7 and 78.2; Djibouti alcohol and tobacco 158.8 in Jun 2014 between 80.7 and 89.9; Gabon communication 100.3 in Jul 2014 between 135.0 and 138.8; Pakistan restaurants 237.3 in Apr 2019 between 119.5 and 120.8, almost exactly double; Chad housing 60.2 in Jul 2012 between 84.0 and 89.4. In every case the two neighbours agree with each other far more closely than either agrees with the flagged month, and the series continues from where it left off. | ||||||