April records all time low

2.0% inflation, in 3 years

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—Year on year inflation rates in Bohol sagged for an all time low of 2.0 percent in April of 2025, from 2022, as the province maintains less than 3.0 percent inflation rate since the beginning of 2025.

The highest recorded monthly inflation rate in Bohol since 2022 was in December of 2022 at 10.4 percent and January 2023 at 10.3 percent, according to data provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Bohol.

At the recent monthly press conference of the PSA disseminating the April 2025 inflation rate, Chief Supervising Statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren said that the headline inflation in Bohol slowed down to 2.0 percent in April from 2.9 percent in March of 2025.

Driven by the faster decrease in the indices of heavily weighted food products and non-alcoholic beverages, which further dropped from -0.5 percent to -2.4 percent, the decline in the inflation was also caused by housing, water and electricity, gas and other fuels at 12.4 percent from 12.9 percent, transport from -1.2 percent to -2.0 percent and personal care and miscellaneous goods and services from 2.0 percent to 1.9 percent.

The PSA, which sends out regular enumerators who check on price movements, also noted that housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels which rate high up in the family’s expenditures at 2.72 percentage points; education services with 0.16 percent and alcoholic beverages and tobacco with 0.07 percent share.

This sent ripples into food prices, and according to the PSA, April food inflation in Bohol eased to -2.6 percent from -0.6 percent in March.

As to what drove the food inflation trend, the PSA says it was primarily driven by the decrease in the inflation of rice at -16.8 from -11.3 percent in the previous month.

With rice already assured for every Boholano home, the good thing was that the index prices of some food groups rating high among Boholano choices recorded slower annual growth for April.

Rice, which is heavily weighted, has much determined the character of the price index movement.

For example, fish and seafood continued to show better, from 10.6 percent to 4.7 percent; fruits and nuts: from 7.8 percent to 4.1 percent and vegetables, tubers,plantains, cooking bananas and pulses, from 5.2 to 3.9 perccent.

Sugar, confectionery and desserts also helped: from 5.4 percent to 3.1 percent and ready-made food and other food products not classified elsewhere moved meekly too, from 3.2 percent to 1.3 percent. (PIABohol)

INFLATION RATE TRACKING. The PSA, which conducts regular monthly price movement monitoring in specific stores in Bohol noted that from 4.3 percent price movements in April of 2024, this month’s headline inflation slowed down further to 2.0 percent, shares Chief Statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren. (PIABohol)