The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice has re­leased the Con­sumer Price In­dex (CPI) for De­cem­ber 2025, show­ing a mod­est eas­ing in in­fla­tion and large­ly sta­ble prices across the econ­o­my at the end of the year.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, the in­fla­tion rate for De­cem­ber 2025 stood at 0.4 per cent, re­flect­ing the per­cent­age change in the All Items In­dex com­pared with De­cem­ber 2024. This rep­re­sents a slight de­cline from the 0.5 per cent record­ed for the pre­vi­ous com­par­i­son pe­ri­od of No­vem­ber 2025 over No­vem­ber 2024.

The in­fla­tion rate for the com­pa­ra­ble pe­ri­od one year ear­li­er, De­cem­ber 2024 over De­cem­ber 2023, was mea­sured at 0.5 per cent, in­di­cat­ing a grad­ual soft­en­ing in price growth over the year.

The All Items In­dex, which cap­tures over­all price move­ments across a broad bas­ket of goods and ser­vices, was cal­cu­lat­ed at 125.2 for De­cem­ber 2025.

This fig­ure was un­changed from No­vem­ber 2025, sug­gest­ing that av­er­age con­sumer prices re­mained sta­ble on a month-to-month ba­sis.

With­in the in­dex, the food and non-al­co­holic bev­er­ages cat­e­go­ry how­ev­er, record­ed a slight in­crease, ris­ing from 152.8 in No­vem­ber 2025 to 152.9 in De­cem­ber 2025, an in­crease of 0.1 per cent. This up­ward move­ment was large­ly dri­ven by high­er prices for sev­er­al com­mon­ly pur­chased food items, in­clud­ing fresh whole chick­en, par­boiled rice, toma­toes, fresh carite, plan­tains, eggs, onions, green sweet pep­pers, chilled or frozen turkey parts and oth­er chilled or frozen pork prod­ucts.

The over­all in­crease in food prices was par­tial­ly off­set by price de­clines in a range of oth­er items. No­table de­creas­es were ob­served in cu­cum­ber chive, cel­ery, hot pep­pers, ta­ble mar­garine, pump­kin, grapes, or­anges, frozen whole chick­en and soya bean oil, which helped to mod­er­ate the over­all rise in the food in­dex.

A fur­ther re­view of the da­ta for De­cem­ber 2025 com­pared with No­vem­ber 2025 re­flect­ed in­creas­es in the sub-in­dices for al­co­holic bev­er­ages and to­bac­co of 0.7 per cent, cloth­ing and footwear of 0.2 per cent and health of 0.1 per cent.

All oth­er sec­tions re­mained un­changed.