Prices of several items within a basket of 63 essential goods have risen since January 1st this year, as analyzed by DECO PROteste.
Broccoli topped the list with a price increase of 49% from January 1 to September 3, leading to an additional cost of 1.37 euros for Portuguese consumers this year.
Oranges came in second, with prices rising by 31%, adding 46 cents to their cost.
Placing third were eggs, which saw a price increase of 28%, translating to an additional 45 cents.
Experts reported that this week, the food basket costs 240.56 euros.
The basket includes meat, frozen foods, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, groceries, and fish, with items such as turkey, chicken, horse mackerel, hake, onions, potatoes, carrots, bananas, apples, oranges, rice, spaghetti, sugar, ham, milk, cheese, butter considered among others.
And the inflation rate?
The inflation rate climbed 2.8% in August, 0.2 percentage points above July’s variation, according to the provisional estimate released at the end of the month by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
The data collected by the institute, still subject to revision, indicates an acceleration in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
After a 2.64% difference in the index in July compared to the same month last year, the rate rose to 2.78% this month, the INE reveals in the statistical summary.
The core inflation indicator – the total index excluding unprocessed food and energy products – recorded a variation of 2.5% compared to August of last year, matching July’s difference.
“The variation in the index for energy products was -0.2% (-1.1% in July) and the index for unprocessed food products is estimated to have accelerated again to 7.0% (6.1% in the previous month),” details the INE.
The overall CPI variation compared to July (month-on-month) was negative, with a monthly difference of -0.2%. This decrease was smaller than that recorded from June to July, which was -0.4%.
