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Consumer prices - December 2021
According to preliminary estimates, in December 2021 the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.4% on monthly basis and by 3.9% with respect to December 2020 (from +3.7% in the previous month). In 2021, the average annual rate of change of consumer prices, measured by NIC, was +1.9% (-0.2% in 2020); core inflation, excluding energy and unprocessed food, was +0.8% (from +0.5% in 2020) and inflation excluding energy was +0.7% (the same as in 2020). The speed-up of the growth on annual basis of all-item index was mainly due to the prices of processed food including alcohol (from +1.4% in ... (full story)