The Statistics Division, under the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance releases the CPI for Jun 2025
Year-on-Year Analysis
The Consumer Price Index rose by 0.2% for the twelve months ending June 2025 after declining 0.6% in May 2025. The All Items Less Food and Energy index remained unchanged over the last twelve months.
The Food index declined 0.8% over the last twelve months ending June. The Energy index increased 5.4% over the last year. The index for Food declined 0.8% after rising 0.5% in the previous month.
The Food index had varied outcomes resulting from five decreases and four increases in the subcategories.
The Food index was impacted by declines in the indexes for Vegetables (-4.2%), as several elementary indexes declined, including Lettuce (- 60.6%), Frozen Vegetable, California Blend (- 23.0%), Onion (-13.8%), and White Potato (- 12.3%).
Other Food subcategories that contribute to decline include Fish and Seafood (-3.2%), Oils and Fats (-6.3%), Milk, Cheese, and Eggs (-2.2%), and Sugar, Jams, Honey, Chocolate, and Confectionery (-3.6%).
The index for All Items Less Food and Energy remained unchanged, resulting from offsetting results in core inflation.
Four of the major groups’ indexes increased in June, but were outweighed by other groups.
The indexes for Health increased by 9.6% while Restaurants and Hotels rose 9.4%. Other increases were Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco and Narcotics (+4.4%), Clothing and Footwear (+2.3%).
These increases were offset by decreases in the indexes for Recreation and Culture (+5.1%), Furnishings, Household Equipment and Routine Household Maintenance (+4.1%), Maintenance and repair of dwelling (+3.7%), and Actual Rentals for Housing 3.2%.
Month-to-Month Price Changes
The Monthly Consumer Price Index for June 2025 increased by 1.0% in June 2025 after declining 0.6% in May.
The index for food rose 0.9 percent in June after falling 0.4% in May.
Seven of the nine major grocery store food group indexes increased in June.
The index for Food Products N.E.C. rose 3.9% over the month as both the indexes for Tomato paste and Ketchup increased 3.0% and the index for BBQ sauce increased by 5.5%.
The index for Fruits increased 3.5% in June with the indexes for Fresh and Chilled Fruit; and Frozen, Preserved or Processed Fruit and Fruit-based Products increasing 3.6% and 3.1% respectively.
The Vegetables index increased 2.8% with the Fresh or Chilled Vegetables rising 4.8% after declining 1.5% the previous month.
The index for All Items less Food and Energy rose 1.1 percent in June.
The index for Transport Services rose 8.4% in June.
The index for Actual Rentals for Housing increased 3.0% over the month and the index for Goods and Services for routine Household Maintenance rose 1.0%.
The index for Miscellaneuos Good and Services rose 0.3% over the same period.
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Why you people continue to publish this crap, not even the cool aid drinkers are concerned, people guage it by how fast their disposable income dwindles. Overall ebry time you go ah shap you pay mo money dat ah de yardstick people measure by
Pure and utter bilge published once again by this out-of-touch and out-of-kilter government and their vast army of enablers.
However, fellow Antiguans, remember their words or statistics cannot put food in the mouths of your children or pay your ever growing bills.
YOUR EYES AND POCKETS WILL NOT DECEIVE
Watch them publish the same damn stats next week. They really do take us for fools. Jokers! 🃏