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Thursday, July 17, 2025

CSO inflation dips in May

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28 days ago
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Shopping cart with groceries.

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ROBERTO CODALLO

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice has not­ed a slight dip in the in­fla­tion rate, ac­cord­ing to the Con­sumer Price In­dex for the month of May 2025.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, the CSO said, “The in­fla­tion rate for May 2025, which mea­sures the per­cent­age change in the all items in­dex for the month of May 2025 over May 2024, was 1.4 per cent. This rep­re­sents a de­crease from 1.5 per cent for the pre­vi­ous pe­ri­od (April 2025/April 2024). The in­fla­tion rate for the com­par­a­tive pe­ri­od (May 2024/May 2023) was 0.9 per cent.”

The CSO added that ac­cord­ing to all-items in­dex’ there was a slight in­crease in prices in May, com­pared to April.

The re­port said, “The all-items in­dex cal­cu­lat­ed from the prices col­lect­ed for the month of May 2025 was 125.3, rep­re­sent­ing an in­crease of 0.1 point or 0.1 per cent above the all items in­dex for April 2025.”

The re­lease con­tin­ued, “The in­dex for food and non-al­co­holic bev­er­ages in­creased from 152.9 in April 2025 to 153.4 in May 2025, re­flect­ing an in­crease of 0.3 per cent. Con­tribut­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly to this in­crease was the gen­er­al up­ward move­ment in the prices of fresh whole chick­ens, cu­cum­ber, pump­kin, ta­ble mar­garine, in­stant cof­fee, white flour, or­anges, bo­di, soya bean oil and full cream milk. How­ev­er, the full im­pact of these price in­creas­es was off­set by the gen­er­al de­crease in the prices of irish pota­toes, fresh carite, me­l­on­gene, onions, ochroes, plan­tains, fresh king fish, gar­lic, pi­men­to and frozen whole chick­en.”

The news re­lease closed, “A fur­ther re­view of the da­ta for May 2025 com­pared with April 2025 re­flect­ed de­creas­es in the sub-in­dices for Al­co­holic Bev­er­ages and To­bac­co of -0.3 per cent, cloth­ing and footwear -0.1 per cent and health of -0.1 per cent. All oth­er sec­tions re­mained un­changed.”


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