Brunei Consumer Prices Inch Higher

2025-10-27 06:04 By Farida Husna 1 min. read

Brunei’s consumer prices edged up 0.03% year-on-year in September 2025, reversing a 0.4% decline in the previous month and marking the first increase since February.

The cost of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose for the first time in 13 months (0.4% vs -0.4% in August), reflecting increases in prices of fruits, fish and seafood, and coffee, tea and cocoa.

Additional upward pressures also came from housing and utilities (0.1% vs -0.1%), transport (0.7% vs -0.4%), health (0.5% vs 0.9%), recreation and culture (0.1% vs -1.9%), education (0.3% vs 0.3%), and restaurants and hotels (0.2% vs 0.2%).

In contrast, prices fell for clothing and footwear (-1.4% vs -0.2%), furnishings and household maintenance (-0.7% vs 0.1%), communication (-0.3% vs -0.3%), and miscellaneous goods and services (-1.3% vs -1.4%).

On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.4%, swinging from a 0.2% drop in August and registering the first monthly increase in five months.



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