
Between 2000 and 2025 the consumer price index in Italy grew by 63%, with strong variations between different sectors, according to an Istat report.
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Istat has published the report Stories of data on consumer prices relating to the period 2000-2025.
The general growth of the consumer price index between 2000 and 2025 was equal to 63% but this figure is the synthesis of increases greater than 100% for the aggregate of housing and utilities (driven by expenses for electricity and fuel), for alcohol and tobacco and for financial and insurance services, and less than 30% for education and health services, and of a decrease of close to 60% in the cost of information and communication goods and services.
Istat writes this in the Report Stories of data on consumer prices.
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