National Institute of Statistics Rwanda

In September 2005 the index for products manufactured for sale on the local market stood at 117.9, following an increase of 1.0% in September and a decrease of 0.4% and 0.1% in July and August respectively.

At the end of December 2005 the index for products manufactured for sale on the local market stood at 117.5, following a decrease of 0.3% in December and also a decrease of 0.3% and 0.1% registered in October and November respectively

At the end of March 2006 the index for products manufactured for sale on the local market stood at 119.6, following an increase of 0.1% in March and also an increase of 0.7% and 1.0% registered in January and February respectively.

At the end of June 2006 the index for products manufactured for sale on the local market stood at 122.7, following an increase of 1.2% in April and also an increase of 1.4% in June while in May the index remained unchanged.

At the end of September 2006 the index for products manufactured for sale on the local market stood at 120.8, following an increase of 0.2% in August while in July and September the index decreased by 1.2 and 0.6 respectively.

On annual average the PPI-M reached at 121.6 in 2006, that is an increase of3.8% compared to the level reached in 2005 (117.1).

During the first three months of the year 2007, the Producer Price Index of the products manufactured for local sales which stood at 123.2 in December 2006 rose to reach at 126.1 in March 2007 following an increase of (+2.5%) and(+0.1% )in January and March respectively and a decline of (-0.2%) in February

For the second quarter of the year 2007 the prices of manufacturing products almost remained unchanged. In June, the Producer Price Index reached at 126.57 after 126.63 and 126.61 attained in May and April respectively, that is a slight decline in June(-0.05%) compared to May, succeeding stagnation between April and Mai and an increase of 0.3% between March and April 2007

In September 2007, the index for products manufactured for sale on local market stood at 128.0, following an increase of 0.7% in July, 0.5% in September and a slight decrease of 0.1% in August.

The general price index for products manufactured for local sales remained unchanged (130.0) in December 2007 when compared to the index registered in the previous month, following two consecutive monthly increases of 0.8% in October and November 2007.