Haiti: Index of consumer prices released

The increase in the overall Index of Consumer Prices (base 100 in August 2004) benefiting from the stability of food world prices and the fall in prices of petroleum products in the local market has continued to slow to stand at 226.2 in February 2015 against 225.6 in January 2014, a slight monthly increase of 0.3% against 0.4% the previous month. Conversely, the annualized inflation rate increased by one percentage point in February, rising to 6.6% against 6.5% in January.

The indices that have contributed most to the monthly increase are "Food, Beverage & Tobacco" (+ 0.5%), "Clothing, Textiles and Footwear" (+ 0.6%), "Planning, Equipment and Maintenance Housing" (+0.5 %)" and "Other goods and services" (+ 0.7%).

Note that the increase in the index "Food, Beverage & Tobacco" which represents over 50% of the household budget resulting from the increase of products such as beef meat (+ 0.8%), chicken (+ 2.2% ), ham (+ 0.6%), powdered milk (+ 0.6%), eggs (+ 1.4%), bananas (+ 2.4%), the pumpkin (+ 1.8%), the marker (+ 1.9%) , leek (+ 1.5%), eggplant (+ 2.0%), cabbage (+ 1.7%), onion (+ 1.2%), garlic (+ 1.5%), carrot (+ 1.3% ), tomatoes (+ 1.6%), yam (+ 2.5%), the malanga (+ 2.4%), cassava (+ 1.7%), pasta (+ 2.4%), potatoes (+2.6 %), orange (+ 1.3%) and papaya (+ 0.5%).

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