13.6% a year
▼ 0.7 percentage points
How fast the general level of prices is rising compared with a year earlier.
AQNI Economy
The Ethiopian economy in plain language
Each indicator explains what it is, what is happening, why it matters and how it could touch your life and business. Values marked "Demo" are demonstration data.
Each indicator explained
Key economic indicators
Prices
Demo
18.6% a year
▼ 1.0 percentage points
How fast food prices are rising compared with a year earlier.
Currency
137.5birr per US dollar
▲ 0.9%
How many birr one US dollar costs.
2,638USD million
▼ 0.3%
The foreign currency held by the central bank.
Output
Demo
5.9% a year
▲ 0.4 percentage points
How fast the total size of the economy is growing.
Banking
16%
● Unchanged
The central bank's main interest rate.
18.6%
▲ 0.2 percentage points
The typical interest rate banks charge on loans.
15.7% a year
▲ 0.8 percentage points
How fast the total amount of money in the economy is growing.
Demo
18.1% a year
▼ 0.4 percentage points
How fast bank lending to the private sector is growing.
15.5%
▲ 0.1 percentage points
The return on short-term government securities.
Trade
1,081USD million
▼ 2.1%
The value of goods sold abroad.
3,449USD million
▲ 2.3%
The value of goods bought from abroad.
Arrows show direction only and never imply good or bad. See methodology.