{"id":104230,"date":"2025-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/abu-dhabi-dubai-inflation-cools-in-april\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T00:00:00","slug":"abu-dhabi-dubai-inflation-cools-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/06\/02\/abu-dhabi-dubai-inflation-cools-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi + Dubai inflation cools in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Abu Dhabi\u2019s consumer price index fell by 0.1% y-o-y in April 2025<\/strong>, down from a 0.1% rise in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/eb133b89-f5ca-493d-8038-443ccae9d33d\/bilateral-chip-agreement-with-the-us-could-be-on-the-table-during-talks-with-trump-in-mid-may\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">March<\/a>, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scad.gov.ae\/w\/consumer-price-index-monthly-april-2025\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> from the Abu Dhabi Statistics Center. Inflation was at its lowest level in the emirate since November 2024, NBK Senior Economist Issa Hijazeen told EnterpriseAM. On a monthly basis, inflation remained unchanged, after it had recorded a 0.5% drop a month before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The annual picture:<\/strong> Prices rose at least slightly in the majority of categories in April on an annual basis, led by a 14.4% price jump in the ins. and financial services basket, and a 8.4% rise in recreation and culture. However, this was offset by an 11.2% decline in transport prices, as well as a 0.2% decline in the prices of household furnishings. The drop in transport prices came \u201cin line with the decline in domestic pump fuel prices,\u201d Hijazeen said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2025\/6\/115.png?ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>On a monthly basis,<\/strong> the recreation and culture segment saw the sharpest m-o-m rise with a 6.3% increase, followed by restaurants and hotels with a 2.1% rise. Meanwhile, transport prices fell by 3.1% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Meanwhile, in Dubai:<\/strong> Dubai\u2019s annual inflation also dipped in April, coming in at 2.31% y-o-y, compared to 2.79% in March, and extending a softening trend since January\u2019s peak of 3.22%. The decline was mostly due to a \u201cmeaningfully lower petrol price offsetting still elevated upwards pressure on housing,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/5\/1725.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Emirates NBD<\/a> said in its research note.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>How the UAE\u2019s overall inflation is expected to play out this year:<\/strong> The IMF now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/261164f9-698a-4536-8e53-af67349d9b67\/imf-maintains-the-uae%25e2%2580%2599s-gdp-growth-forecast-at-4%2525\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">expects<\/a> the UAE\u2019s inflation figure to come in at 2.1% in 2025, in what is a slight upward revision from the fund\u2019s earlier estimate of 2% inflation for 2025. This puts the IMF\u2019s prediction just above that of the Central Bank of the UAE, which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/e95173c0-b4ed-49cf-8c38-460f770da475\/cbuae,-icaew-are-upbeat-on-the-uae%25e2%2580%2599s-growth-this-year\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">penciled in<\/a> a 2.0% inflation rate for the country this year. \u201cOverall inflation is expected to remain subdued in 2025 due to the decline in oil prices and the expected gradual decline in global inflation,\u201d Hijazeen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IMF expects the UAE\u2019s inflation figure to come in at 2.1% in 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1556],"tags":[1360,87,19,7,285],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-104230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-dubai","tag-economy","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-inflation","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"d83376df-238e-4de1-b9e6-6085cbd858ff","order":"3","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/5\/830.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Abu Dhabi + Dubai inflation cools in April","related_issue":[104225],"teaser":"The IMF expects the UAE\u2019s inflation figure to come in at 2.1% in 2025","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/6\/.acce370f-98a9-4b0f-a401-2f941e1b69dc.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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