Inflation in Metropolitan Lima reached 5.58%: what products increased in price in August?

Monthly inflation in August in Metropolitan Lima was 0.38%, which achieved an accumulated variation of 3.30% so far this year and 5.58% in the last 12 months (August 2022-July 2023). , according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).

These results are mainly due to the rise in prices reported by some consumer divisions such as food and non-alcoholic beverages (0.85%), transportation (1.01%), restaurants and hotels (0.43%)recreation and culture (0.38%), education (0.36%), goods and services (0.33%), alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics (0.24%), furniture, household items and conservation ordinary household (0.16%), health (0.16%) and clothing and footwear (0.15%).

What foods were the ones that rose the most in price?

In August, of the 586 products that make up the family basket, 338 showed a significant increase in their prices. Among them are fruits, which registered an increase of 5.9%. In particular, lemon topped the list with an increase of 69.8%, followed by regular apple (23.2%), Israel apple (15.5%), strong avocado (15.9%), watermelon (13 .6%), black grape (7.7%), white grape (6.4%) and melon (7.4%).

Variation % of prices with greater incidence in the CPI of Lima. Photo: INEI

In the case of vegetables, vegetables, legumes, potatoes and other tubers (3.5%) such as red head onion (17.3%), carrot (14.0%), pumpkin (10.5%), huayro potato (9.2%), yellow (8.3%), white (3.9%), color (2.5%), chili pepper (8.7%), pickled yellow chili (6.4%) and corn (3.1%) also increased. It should be noted that andThe liquefied petroleum gas for vehicles had a rise of 26.46%.

Thus, food inflation (0.85%) grew compared to July (0.62%) and maintains a significant 11% accumulated over 12 months. “It is twice the general inflation (5.8%). The agrarian and food crisis continues to hit Peruvian households hard,” said Eduardo Zegarra, a researcher at the Development Analysis Group (Grade).

In contrast, the products with negative variation were strawberries (-25.87%), Chinese onion (-18.68%), leeks (-15.94%), broccoli (-14.94%), cauliflower (-13.92%), tomato (-11.69%), mullet (-9.61%) and national airfare (-9.36%). Chicken (eviscerated), which had been reporting an increase in recent months, reduced its cost by -4%. It is followed by meat (-1.9%) and chicken cuts, such as leg (-3.6%), breast (-3.2%) and wings (-1.0%); also pork cuts, such as rib (-2.9%), leg (-2.2%), chop (-1.8%), bacon (-1.5%), loin (-1.2% ), among others.