After the July Consumer Price Index reported a 6.1% year-on-year variation, in August the increase was 6.3%.
In cumulative terms, national inflation stood at 4.03% (1.66% in August 2018), induced by the behavior of prices in the divisions of Alcoholic beverages and tobacco (42.89%), Several goods and services (9.87%), and Food and non-alcoholic beverages (2.81%), with a joint contribution of 2.13%, reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua.
During the third month of the year, the CPI registered a 1.82% monthly variation, mainly because of the prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco.
In cumulative terms, domestic inflation was 1.84%, year-on-year inflation was 5.09%, 0.25% higher than in March 2018, while base year-on-year inflation was 5.25% (4.20% in March 2018), reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
After the country's Consumer Price Index rose to 3.3% in February 2019, it increased to 5.1% in March.
The March Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly increase of 1.82% (0.14% in March 2018), mainly because of the rise in prices of some goods and services of the divisions: Alcoholic beverages and tobacco (31.37%), Miscellaneous goods and services (3.76%), and Food and non-alcoholic beverages (1.62%), which together contributed 1.176 percentage points to the observed variation, reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
Education and transportation services were the main spending divisions that during the second month of the year caused the variation of the Consumer Price Index in the country.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February showed a 0.27 percent monthly increase (0.22% in February 2018), mainly because of the behavior of prices in some goods and services of the divisions of Education (3.86%), Transportation (1.35%), Furniture and household goods and their conservation (0.67%), which together contributed 0.388 percentage points to the observed variation, explains a report from the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
After reaching the highest level this year with 5.6% in June, the price index reported a variation of 5.2% in August compared to the same month in 2017.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a decrease of 0.24% (-0.03% in August 2017), explained mainly by the behavior of prices in some goods and services in the divisions of Food and non-alcoholic beverages (- 0.75%), Recreation and culture (-3.88%) and Communications (-0.06%), which together contributed -0.4 percentage points to the observed variation, reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN).
During the third month of the year, the CPI recorded a monthly variation of 0.14%, mainly explained by the prices of accommodation, water, electricity and gas, and restaurants and hotels.
In October of this year, the CPI registered a monthly variation of 0.55%, mainly explained by the prices of food, non-alcoholic beverages and water, electricity, gas and other fuels.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly variation of 0.32 percent (0.14% in April 2016), mainly explained by the behavior of prices in some of the goods and services in Transportation (2.00%), Food and Non-alcoholic beverages (0.17%) and Recreation and culture (1.21%), which together contributed 0.253 percentage points to the variation observed.In contrast, in the division of Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels there was a variation of -0.76 percent (-0.068pp).[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graphics"]
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