Malaga province sees grocery prices rise more than the Spanish average

The acceleration in inflation compared with the previous month was also more significant in the province than the average for Spain. In Malaga, inflation rose from 6.1% in December to 6.7% in January, compared with the rise from 5.7% to 5.9% recorded for the country as a whole.

Noticia Relacionada

Food prices rose more than 15 per cent in Spain last month

EDURNE MARTÍNEZ

Also noteworthy is the consumer price index which in Malaga province in December was 0.4% higher than that of the Spanish average and which doubled to 0.8% in January. Since 2002, only once, in April 2005, has this inflation gap been as wide

The difference was particularly significant in the case of food and non-alcoholic beverages: while in Spain as a whole the rise was 15.4% compared with January 2022, in Malaga province the increase was 17%.