Consumer prices · 13 categories · latest 2023-08-01
Source: International Monetary Fund. Data as of 2026-01-01. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | IMF | 2023-07-01 | suppressed | ZWE.CPI_CP01_* | 2026-09-02 | Possible index rebasing |
| Zimbabwe's food index falls 966.37 -> 670.02 in July 2023, and unlike every other entry in this class the country's HEADLINE falls with it, -15.3% in the same month. That is the test the other cases fail, passed: a division and the aggregate moving together is a price level moving, not one series being re-referenced. The run into it is +26% then +104% in the two preceding months, which is the Zimbabwe dollar in mid-2023, and the series ends two months later at 622.35. Suppressed: nothing here is wrong with the data. Zimbabwe separately publishes two divisions as 0.00 in 2009 (see zwe-cpi-divisions-zero-2009). | ||||||
| Zimbabwe | IMF | 2009-01-01 | confirmed | ZWE.CPI_CP08_*, ZWE.CPI_CP10_* | 2026-09-02 | Impossible zero value |
| Zimbabwe's communication and education indices read exactly 0.00 for January, February and March 2009 and then start at 3.59 and 3.49 in April. The country's headline index is published for those same three months (1.96, 1.90, 1.84), so this is not the office being shut: two divisions have no number while the aggregate does. That is the quarter the Zimbabwe dollar was abandoned, and the zeros are placeholders for prices that could not be collected in it -- a reading the shape supports and no source statement here confirms. As in Mauritius, the source publishes no rate for the first real month. | ||||||