All categories
September 2026
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco
Covers alcoholic drinks and tobacco.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 02.1 Alcoholic beverages
- 02.3 Tobacco
Source: Stats SA, Consumer Price Index: Sources and Methods, Report No. 01-41-01 (2026), section 2.2 and Annexure 1 – CPI basket of goods and services (COICOP 2018)
Year on year
3.6%
Month on month
+0.1%
Basket weight
4.6%
Contribution to annual inflation
+0.17 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco: by province
- 1North West5.8%
- 2Mpumalanga4.7%
- 3Free State4.5%
- 4South Africa3.6%
- 5KwaZulu-Natal3.5%
- 6Gauteng3.3%
- 7Western Cape2.9%
- 8Eastern Cape2.7%
- 9Northern Cape2.6%
- 10Limpopo1.8%