Annualized inflation to February was 7.55%

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) had a monthly variation of 1% in February and accumulated 2.57% in the first two months of 2023.

In the year-on-year comparison with February 2022, inflation slowed down since last year it had closed at 8.84%. The same happened in the accumulated of the first two months.

The item with the highest monthly growth was food and non-alcoholic beverages with 1.84%. in the segment of fruits and vegetables The increases in carrots with 48.4%, lemons with 37.78%, potatoes and baby potatoes with 32.9% and oranges with 22.9% stood out.

The INE indicated that in the meat fresh and frozen had a drop of 0.6%. There the greatest decrease was verified in the peceto with 7.3%.

The health it was the second sector with the highest monthly acceleration with 1.54%. Orders for medical consultations had a price increase of 2.8% and medication tickets 2.7%.

The services of education they were in third place. The official report indicated that the increase was basically explained by the increases in music, singing, dancing and plastic arts courses with 4.3% and commercial education with 4.15%. Preschool education had a rise of 1.34%, primary education 1.26% and secondary education 1.34%.