Consumer Price Index (Base Year 2018)

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Consumer Price Index (Base Year 2018)

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Saint Lucia

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Reference period: 2018 to 2022

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	Unit	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Inflation Rate - end of period	%	1.55	-0.70	-0.37	4.15	6.90
Inflation Rate - period average	%	1.94	0.54	-1.76	2.41	6.38
All Items	Index	101.90	101.18	100.81	104.99	112.23
Food And Non-Alcoholic Beverages	Index	102.35	103.05	103.97	105.09	112.84
Alcohol Beverages, Tobacco And Narcotics	Index	102.55	105.69	103.26	104.77	115.49
Clothing And Footware	Index	90.45	90.51	100.98	101.33	101.15
Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas, And Other Fuels	Index	104.60	99.06	96.06	110.69	134.09
Furnishing, Household Equipment And Routine Household Maintenance	Index	98.58	101.67	100.93	102.57	111.32
Health	Index	101.44	102.19	104.93	110.25	110.14
Transport	Index	103.01	106.74	98.46	107.66	112.48
Communication	Index	99.87	99.80	99.21	101.45	101.21
Recreation And Culture	Index	96.45	93.60	85.42	88.88	87.80
Education	Index	100.00	100.01	100.00	98.30	98.49
Restaurants And Hotels	Index	97.18	96.71	98.79	99.91	100.64
Miscellaneous Goods And Services	Index	99.12	101.29	98.92	99.42	104.12

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Central Statistical Offices of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB).

For more information on the CPI see the Consumer Price Index Manual, Concepts and Methods, 2020

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The Consumer Price Index (CPI)

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households use or pay for. This basket of goods and services are weighted in line with their importance to households. In compiling a CPI, a base period must be used; the base period is set to 100 and it is used to compare values from one period to the next.

The inflation rate measures the percentage change in the price of a basket of goods between periods.

Inflation rate (end of period) measures the percentage change at the end of two (2) given periods.

Inflation rate (period average) measures the average percentage change between two or more periods.

End of Period

End of Period is calculated as period over period. For example, monthly data is calculated as June of the current year over May of the current year; quarterly is calculated as June of the current year over March of the current year; and annual is calculated as December of the current year over December of the previous year.