Inflation in September marked a 6.2% variation, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec). In this way, the price increase during the first eight months of 2022 was 66.1% and in the last twelve months the accumulated figure reached 83%. Economy Minister Sergio Massa said that despite being the second consecutive month in which inflation was reduced,” “it is a number that still does not conform to me, far from it.” It is the second month in a row in which we managed to reduce inflation but it is a number that still does not conform to me by any means. Our obsession has to be to work every month to continue walking the downstairs,” he told a group of journalists after giving a talk at the headquarters of the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in the US capital.
Inflation in September was 6.2% and in the last year it accumulated 83%. In turn, the variation of the first seven months of the year was 66.1%.
Among the regions that suffered the greatest increases in the CPI, those that exceeded general inflation were the Northeast, which suffered a variation of 6.8% and the Pampas of 6.3%; the other regions, which were below the general data are Noroeste, Patagonia and Cuyo with 6.1%, and the GBA with 6%. The items with the highest price increase are clothing and footwear with 10.6%, alcoholic beverages and tobacco with 9.4%, various goods and services with 6.8 and finally food, which is still above inflation, with 6.7%.
However, among the items that contributed the most to the CPI are again non-alcoholic foods and beverages that increased by 6.7%. Within this division, the main impulses were vegetables, tubers and legumes (18%); oil, fats and butter (10.4%); fruits (6.6%); milk, dairy products and eggs (6%); and bread and cereals (5.4%).
