In June 2024, Kiribati’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded a year-on-year increase of 8.0%, with the All-Items index rising from 97.7 in September 2023 to 105.6 in September 2024. The month-on-month increase was modest at -0.1%.

In the year to May 2024, prices for the All-items CPI increased by 1.9 percent compared to the same monthlast year. In May 2024, the CPI all-items index stood at 104.4, compared to the 102.4 index in May 2023. Year-on-Year Average Inflation Rates

In the year to July 2023, prices for the All-items CPI rose by 10.8 percent compared to the same month last
year. In July 2023, the CPI all-items index stood at 148.0, up from 133.6 in July 2022.

The Kiribati National Statistics Office included a specific module in the 2019 household income and expenditure survey (HIES) questionnaire in order to evaluate the impact of the government increase to the price of copra, which took effect in 2018 and where the price...

Undertaking a Census of Population and Housing is a massive task for every Pacific National Statistics Office. It requires preparation, planning and logistical challenges especially when remote islands are involved. During November 2020, the Kiribati NSO successfully...

This report was authored by Dr Christopher Hoy, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank. This report describes the status of i-Kiribati in terms of poverty, which is when people’s consumption of food and non-food good and services is relatively low when...