Food Prices

Market prices, not a national inflation index

The World Food Programme collects commodity prices through market monitors. Sanad shows the monthly median across reporting markets within each governorate—not one market price and not a national average.

The dashboard starts with retail wheat flour per kilogram in Syrian pounds. Change the filters for another commodity or governorate, and do not mix SYP with USD or different package units when comparing values.

What does one day of work buy?

Sanad divides the non-qualified daily labour rate by the wheat-flour price in the same governorate and month. The result shows how many kilograms the daily wage buys; it is more useful for welfare comparison than a raw price alone because prices and wages can change together.

Filter, compare, then download

Governorate and time filters apply to prices and affordability; commodity, currency, and unit filters apply only to the price charts. Open the table menu to download filtered rows as CSV or Excel.

Affordability-proxy limits

The wage series is a market-observed daily rate for non-qualified labour: a proxy, not household income and not an official wage statistic. Both wage and flour price are governorate market medians. A gap means at least one series was not observed that month; Sanad does not fill or interpolate it. This indicator is not a poverty measure.

Reading limits

The market count shows the basis of the price median and can change across place and time. The USD series is converted at the exchange rate used at collection; it is not a parallel-market exchange-rate measure. Price changes may reflect inflation, supply, seasonality, or a changing market sample and do not establish one cause.