Australia CPI Consumer Price Index December 2018

CPI Australia December of 2018

Australians CPI goes down to 1.8%

The annual variation rate of the CPI in Australia in December of 2018 was 1.8%, 1 tenth less than the month before.The monthly variation rate of the CPI (Consumer Price Index) has been 0.5%, and thus the accumulated inflation in 2018 is 1.8%

We must highlight the increase of 3.2% in the prices of Alcoholic beverages and tobacco, until its interannual rate reached 6.8%, which is in contrast to the decrease in the prices of Communication of -1.3%, and an interannual variation of -4.3%.

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CPI (overall index) [+]

CPI Australia December 2018

	Interannual	Accum. since January	Monthly variation
CPI (overall index) [+]	1.8%	1.8%	0.5%
Food and non-alcoholic beverages [+]	1.5%		0.9%
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco [+]	6.8%		3.2%
Clothing and footwear [+]	-0.7%		-0.2%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels [+]	1.5%		0.2%
Furniture, household equipment and maintenance [+]	-0.8%		0.5%
Health [+]	3.3%		-0.4%
Transport [+]	2.8%		-0.7%
Communication [+]	-4.3%		-1.3%
Recreation and culture [+]	1.7%		1.1%
Education [+]	2.7%		0%
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Australia: CPI annual

	2017	2016
CPI (overall index) [+]	1.9%	1.5%
Food and non-alcoholic beverages [+]	-0.2%	1.8%
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco [+]	7.3%	5.9%
Clothing and footwear [+]	-3.0%	-0.9%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels [+]	3.4%	1.9%
Furniture, household equipment and maintenance [+]	-0.8%	0.6%
Health [+]	4.0%	3.7%
Transport [+]	3.3%	-0.3%
Communication [+]	-3.4%	-5.9%
Recreation and culture [+]	0.6%	-0.5%
Education [+]	3.2%	3.3%