According to the National Statistics Committee, prices for goods and services in the consumer sector decreased by an average of 0.1% in July 2026.
The annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 106.4%, down 2.5 percentage points from the corresponding figure recorded in July of the previous year (108.9% in July 2025).
In July, food prices decreased by an average of 0.9%, while non-food goods rose in price by 0.3% and paid services to households by 0.5%.
Among essential food products, inflationary pressure was driven by price increases for carrots (12.6%), long-grain rice (6.4%), short-grain rice (6.1%), mung beans (4.2%) and onions (1.7%).
The decline in prices for eggplants (–42.8%), bell peppers (–39.4%), tomatoes (–24.0%), watermelons (–20.3%), potatoes (–18.0%), melons (–14.5%), peaches (–10.6%), cucumbers (–10.6%), garlic (–10.0%), pears (–7.1%), grapes (–6.6%), apples (–6.6%), bananas (–6.6%) and eggs (–5.0%) contributed significantly to easing inflation.
Among non-food goods, prices rose for AI-98 and AI-100 petrol by 10.0%, AI-95 petrol by 8.5%, and AI-92 petrol by 3.9%.
In the services sector, the main drivers of price and tariff increases were household waste collection fees, which rose by 2.7%, mobile communication services by 2.4%, and urban bus fares by 1.4%.
For the calculations, more than 2 million price observations were recorded at over 10,000 retail and service outlets. The monitoring covered prices for 419 types of food and non-food goods and 98 types of services.
