Inflation in the UAE
In the year to December 2025, consumer prices in the UAE rose 2.0%, up from 1.6% a month earlier. That is the latest reading available, because the UAE builds its national figure from all seven emirates and that takes months. Over the longer run they have risen 33.8% since January 2008, the start of the official series. That means AED100 then buys what AED133.79 buys now, so the same basket of goods costs 1.3 times what it did.
Cumulative & Yearly Inflation
What AED100 would be worth today
Each row takes AED100 at that date and shows the equivalent sum in December 2025, the most recent month on record for the UAE.
| Date | Amount then | Worth today | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | AED100.00 | AED133.79 | 33.8% |
| January 2010 | AED100.00 | AED126.21 | 26.2% |
| January 2020 | AED100.00 | AED110.32 | 10.3% |
How inflation in the UAE is measured
The figures above come from the IMF's CPI dataset, with the original data from the UAE's Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC). The series is indexed so that a chosen base year equals 100, and the calculator works out the ratio between any two dates you pick.
Coverage runs from January 2008 to December 2025, and updates automatically as each new release is published. Figures for the most recent periods can be revised by the statistics office after first publication.
The UAE publishes later than most countries, and the reason is structural rather than neglect. There is no single national price collection: each of the seven emirates gathers its own prices and reports them separately, and only once all seven are in can the federal statistics centre weight them together into one national index. That assembly takes months, so the national figure lands well after the month it describes, while individual emirates have often published their own numbers long before. The figure above is the most recent the UAE has released, not the most recent month that has happened, and the date on it is the month being measured.