Which foods and cleaning products increased the most in January?

In January, food prices increased by an average of 20.4%, mainly due to the smallest increase in meat prices compared to Decemberitem that also has a very high weight or weight in the general index.

But there were numerous basic foods that experienced increases higher than those of December and with higher increases in food prices. cleaning and toiletries, public transport fares and prepaid fares.

In Capital and GBA, prices of food and soft drinks increased by an average of 19.6%, while “meat and meat products” increased by only 12.8%.

But milk, dairy products and eggs increased by 27.7%. In this area, fresh milk stood out with an increase of 37.03% against 34.47% in December and yogurt with an increase of 31.73% against 29.41% in December.

In bread and cereals the average increase was 23.6%, with table bread increasing by 43.03% against 38.36% in December.

Coffee, tea, yerba and cocoa increased by an average of 35.5%. But coffee recorded an increase of 70.45% when in December it had grown by 40.65%.

In the cleaning and toiletries sector, increases were significant. Some examples are:

-Powdered laundry soap in January 43.57% versus 39.43% in December.

-Shampoo 57.09% versus 48.27% in December.

-Deodorants 47.64% compared to 33.01% in December.

-Toilet soap 40.72% versus 38.35%.

-Disposable diapers 65.32% in January compared to 45.77% in December.

In the month of January, prepaid installments increased on average by 38.8%. And public passenger transport 26.5%, in both cases higher percentages than in December. In February this item will have a much higher increase compared to the previous 2 months.

For its part, year-on-year inflation in January was 254.2% versus 211.4% in December and the value of the family poverty basket increased from 225.1% year-on-year in December to 264, 9% in January. It will certainly increase again in February because a year ago that month recorded a single-digit increase in both indicators and this year it is expected to reach 2-digits.

With interannual increases of more than 300% are soft drinks (342.3%), natural water (313%), beer (307%), coffee (379.5%), grass (332.2 %), rice (933%), minced meat (362%) and roast (329%).