In February, inflation reached 8.01% in Colombia.

The annual increase in prices for the second month of 2022 was 8.01%, as recorded by the Dane, the entity that delivered the inflation results.

In February, the figure was 1.63 %, which brought annual inflation to 8.01 %, significantly higher than the previous year’s figure of 1.56 %.

The spending divisions that presented variations for February 2022 were:

Education (4.48 %).

Food and non-alcoholic beverages (3.26 %).

Furniture, household articles and articles for ordinary household maintenance (2.60%).

According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics, the items that registered the most important variations in the annual CPI were:

Food and non-alcoholic beverages, with a variation of 23.3 %.

Followed by restaurants and hotels (12.41%).

Furniture, household articles and articles for ordinary household maintenance (8.86 %); and transportation (7.44 %).

The sectors that contributed most to the annual figure were food and non-alcoholic beverages with a contribution of 3.72 percentage points; accommodation, water, electricity, gas and other fuels with 1.47; restaurants and hotels with 1.20; and transportation with 0.96 percentage points.

Source: Actualize

En febrero, inflación anual llegó a 8,01% en Colombia