He Consumer’s price index in Metropolitan Lima—barometer of inflation in the country—fell to -0.32% during October and, in year-on-year terms, stood at 4.34%, its lowest level since July 2021according to National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).
The monthly result of inflation is explained by the greater incidence of sectors such as food and non-alcoholic beverages (-2.00%); accommodation, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (+0.31%); restaurants and hotels (+0.36%); as well as transportation and miscellaneous goods and services (both rose 0.37%).
Motorists without insurance earn an average of S/1,500 per month
Regarding accommodation, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, the increase is due to the increase in household fuels, highlighting domestic gas (1.5%) and also considering that residential electricity rates increased 0.1%.
And, generally speaking, The greatest variation in food prices was recorded in Chinese onion (27.59%), corn (25.16%), horse mackerel (24.72%), strong avocado (21.51%), yellow potato (15 .58%), papa huayro (14.57%), olluco (12.18%) and mackerel (11.73%).
On the other hand, the products that dropped the most are pickles (-15.85%), mango (-15.86%), lettuce (-16.39%), spinach (-16.51%), parrot (-22 .98%), celery (-33.57%), red head onion (-39.87%) and lemon (-46.37%).
It should be added that the lemon broke its upward trend—to the point that it reached peaks of S/15.70 per kilogram—and is now declining, as the president of the BCRP had announced, Julio Velarde.
The data
Food inflation in year-on-year terms is 6.79%.
Source: Larepublica
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