Mauritius’s inflation will average 5.8 percent this year, according to a central bank survey conducted last month, up from the 5.6 percent forecast in February.
The inflation rate will vary between 5 percent and 7 percent in December, according to 67 percent of respondents in the survey, the Port Louis-based Bank of Mauritius said on its website today.
Inflation accelerated to 4.8 percent in May from 4.4 percent the month before, the Central Statistics Office said on June 7.