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September 2026
Health
Covers medicines, health products, outpatient and inpatient care, and other health services.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 06.1 Medicines and health products
- 06.2 Outpatient care services
- 06.3 Inpatient care services
- 06.4 Other health services
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
3.2%
Month on month
+0.1%
Basket weight
1.8%
Contribution to annual inflation
+0.06 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Health: by province
- 1Limpopo4.0%
- 2Mpumalanga3.9%
- 3Free State3.8%
- 4Eastern Cape3.7%
- 5Gauteng3.6%
- 6Northern Cape3.4%
- 7South Africa3.2%
- 8KwaZulu-Natal2.8%
- 9Western Cape2.6%
- 10North West2.5%