You will receive:

• 13 years of monthly headline inflation data
• 20 years of annual GDP data

This dataset covers Eswatini’s official headline inflation values, along with GDP for macroeconomic context.

Participants are encouraged to enrich their models with additional open-source data, such as:

• South Africa inflation data (Stats SA Database)
• Common Monetary Area (CMA) data
• Safex maize prices
• FAO International Food Price Index
• JSE historical series

These may provide additional explanatory power for your forecasts.

Please note that data must be open-source and freely available.