Consumer prices · 63 categories · latest 2026-08-01
The same category from more than one publisher. The national statistics office is the record; the IMF's series are its own compilation and can differ in definition, coverage and vintage.
ABS rebased the CPI from April-June 2009 to April-June 2016. Living Data keeps the two source families separate.
ABS publishes national classification detail and all-items and food histories for five collection areas. May-June 2018 are absent from the national and area histories because ABS reported a strike.
Sources: General Bureau of Statistics Suriname (ABS). Data reproduced with source acknowledgement. (as of 2026-10-03); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-09-30). Computed here, not published: ratio of the ABS index to the previous month; ratio of the ABS 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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2 recorded findings for this country, shown exactly as in the full quality register.
| Country | Source | Periods | Status | Series | Found | Detected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suriname | IMF | 2009-04-01, 2016-04-01 | confirmed | SUR.CPI_CP02_*, SUR.CPI_CP04_*, SUR.CPI_CP06_* | 2026-09-02 | Possible index rebasing |
| Suriname is the one country here where the source's own metadata names the date. It declares 'APRIL 2016 - JUNE 2016=100', and the housing index steps 130.38 -> 96.50 in APRIL 2016 -- onto the declared base, in the declared month. That is a re-reference with the history left unscaled, confirmed by the source's own label rather than inferred from shape, and it is the most solidly established base break in this register after Libya's. The April 2009 pair (alcohol and tobacco 63.04 -> 43.84, health 55.08 -> 44.06) is a separate event seven years earlier that the declaration does not cover, sharing only the month. 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. | ||||||
| Suriname | ABS Suriname | 2018-05-01, 2018-06-01, 2018-07-01, 2019-05-01, 2019-06-01 | confirmed | SUR.CPI_ABS16_* | 2026-10-04 | Series stops and later resumes |
| Visually checked page 2 of the December 2018 and December 2019 ABS bulletins against the archived PDFs. May and June 2018 are explicitly blank due to trade-union action from 20 April to 9 July 2018. The 2019 table also leaves May and June annual changes blank, since their comparison indices are absent. Both tables highlight July 2018's 1.3% in the I(t,t-1) column and qualify it as July compared with April. It is not a one-month rate and must not be served as MoM; retain its source value in the archive and reader-facing note. No missing index is reconstructed or filled. Unrelated missing category rates remain open for separate review. | ||||||