Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Planning revealed that there was a slight decrease in the prices of the food and non-alcoholic beverages section by (0.3%) during the past month, while the ministry confirmed that the monthly inflation rate also recorded a slight increase in the month of last May, at a rate of (0.04%).
The official spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi, attributed the drop in food prices to the decrease in the prices of milk, cheese and eggs by (1.9%) and vegetables by (1.8%), adding that the Central Bureau of Statistics continued to monitor prices for various departments throughout Iraq, and that the agency issued its report The sixth qualitative measure of the consumer price index for the month of May, after changing the exchange rate of the dinar in November of last year, noting that the prices of the tobacco section recorded an increase during the mentioned month by (1.9%), compared to the month of April, while clothing prices recorded Shoes and shoes increased slightly by (0.2%), while the housing section witnessed a decrease in its prices during the past month by (0.2%), due to a decrease in rental prices by (0.6%), and on the other hand, the prices of the home furnishings, equipment and maintenance section recorded an increase of (0.2%). The prices of the health department also increased by 0.1%.
For its part, the prices of the education and transport departments maintained the same levels recorded in the month of April, and the prices of the restaurants department recorded an increase of (0.1%), and the prices of miscellaneous goods and services increased by (1.5%), while the prices of the communication department increased by (0.3%). The prices of the entertainment section increased by (1.5%).
Al-Hindawi pointed out that the inflation index recorded a cumulative rise since December of last year 2020, until May of this year, reaching (5.6 percent).
It is worth noting that the inflation index for the month of December, according to what was monitored by the Ministry of Planning after changing the exchange rate of the dollar, recorded an increase by 3.3%, and in January of the same year the inflation rate rose by (0.8), and it rose in February by (0.7% In the month of March, the rate of rise in the inflation index was (0.6%), and the rise index decreased in the month of April to (0.1%).