Ethiopia Real Time Prices: Weekly Food, Fuel, and Exchange Rate Estimates

Real Time Prices (RTP) is a live dataset compiled and updated weekly by the World Bank. It combines direct price measurement with Machine Learning estimation for missing data, using sources like the World Food Program and UN-FAO. The data includes three sub-series for food, energy, and exchange rates, with unofficial rate estimates.

Use Cases

• Modeling food price inflation based on staple food price data.
• Analyzing fuel price volatility and its economic impact based on energy price series.
• Forecasting unofficial exchange rate movements based on the exchange rate sub-series.
• Assessing market conditions by integrating weekly updated food, fuel, and currency data.

Strengths

• Updated weekly, providing near-live data as of the last update on 2026-04 15.
• Combines direct measurement with ML estimation to address missing data.
• Aggregates price information from authoritative sources like WFP, FAO, and National Statistical Offices.
• Includes three distinct economic indicator series: food, energy, and exchange rates.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the sources and focus on Ethiopia.

Provenance

Source

World Bank Development Economics Data Group (DECDG).

Collection Method

Combination of direct price measurement and Machine Learning estimation, using data from WFP, FAO, and National Statistical Offices.

Time Range

Historical and current estimates; temporal coverage is not explicitly stated.

Freshness

Weekly updates; last updated 2026-04-15 09:48:30.035429.

Geography

Ethiopia.