The "Consumer Price Index (CPI) 2025" publication provides a comprehensive analysis of consumer price trends across various expenditure groups within the emirate. The overall Consumer Price Index for Abu Dhabi Emirate showed an annual growth of 5.6% in 2022, stabilizing to 0% in 2023, and then experiencing modest increases of 0.5% in 2024 and 0.3% in 2025. This indicates a period of initial inflation followed by a more controlled and stable price environment.

Key expenditure groups exhibited diverse trends. Food and beverages consistently saw positive annual growth, starting at 8.3% in 2022 and gradually moderating to 0.1% by 2025. Housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuels, after a slight decrease in 2022, showed increasing annual growth rates, reaching 2.6% in 2025, highlighting rising costs in essential utilities. The transport sector experienced significant volatility, with a substantial 26.3% growth in 2022, followed by decreases of -7.4% in 2023 and -2.8% in 2024, before a further decline of -5.7% in 2025, suggesting a deflationary trend in this category. Conversely, insurance and financial services demonstrated a strong upward trend, moving from a negative growth of -3% in 2022 to a robust 8.2% in 2025. Other sectors like recreation and culture, and restaurants and hotels also showed fluctuating but generally positive growth over the period. The data underscores a dynamic economic landscape with varying inflationary pressures across different consumer spending categories in Abu Dhabi.

Publisher

Statistics Centre – Abu Dhabi (SCAD)

Geographic coverage

Abu Dhabi

Release date

2026-02-28

Statistical theme

Economic Statistics