December Bohol inflation

rate sags to 0.2% - PSA

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—Over-all inflation rate of the price of basket of goods consumed by majority of Boholanos dropped to its lowest point at 0.2 percent in December 2025 from its previous 1.6 percent in November, as monitored by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently.

The drop becomes even more pronounced as December 2024 recorded a 3.4 percent inflation rate.

This brings the average provincial inflation from January 2025 to December of the past year at 1.7 percent, noting the 2.9 percent inflation rates nailed in February and March before going into a downward trend to 1.0 in October, reports PSA Bohol Chief supervising statistician, Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren.

By November of last year, PSA’s price monitors noted a sudden spike of the prices of basic consumed commodities and services at 1.6 percent.

But while many predicted a continuing rice in prices with the Christmas spending in full swing, December proved to have a tame inflation.

Top three main sources of the slowing of the December 2024 inflation are notable prices housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels at 0.3 percent, transport at 3.7 percent and alcoholic beverages and tobacco with a 1.5 percent inflation rate, she added.

These three own up the biggest shares in the December inflation downtrend at 78.9 percent, 20.7 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.

The provincial inflation rate could have gone down some more, had food and non-alcoholic beverages maintain their negative inflation rates as recorded in November, the PSA presentation showed.

PSA pointed out that “Food and non-alcoholic beverages zoomed past its usual minimal price differences per month, but from -2.9 percent inflation in November, it leapt to 0.8 percent.”

Vegetables, tubers, plantains, cooking bananas and pulse contributed 283.3 percent for 0.57 percentage points; fish and other seafood as 254.6 percent owning 0.51 percentage points; meat and other parts of slaughtered animals as 113.9 percent with 0.23 percentage points.

Add to these domestic and household services with 45.1 percent owning up 0.09 percent and electricity with 22.5 percent and 0.04 percentage points, which affected the inflation rate during the Christmas season.

With this food inflation in December 2024 was recorded at 1.6 percent, but by November 2025, it sprung to the double at 3.1 percent, bringing the food inflation in December to 1.8 percent. (PIABohol)

ALL TIME LOW. Despite a 0.8 percent headline provincial inflation, the acceleration of inflation was primarily contributed by the year-on-year increase in the index of the heavily-weighted food and non-alcoholic beverages, cites Bohol PSA CSS Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren. (PIABohol)