2nd report January consumer price 06↑ 0 units for four consecutive months… Egg 152↑

Livestock products 11.5%↑, the largest increase since June 2014

Last month, consumer prices rose 0.6%, showing an increase of 0% for four consecutive months.

Livestock products such as eggs rose the most in six years, and personal service prices jumped on the rise of the minimum wage, but industrial products declined due to low oil prices.

According to the consumer price trend of Statistics Korea on the 2nd, the consumer price index for January was 106.47 (2015 = 100), up 0.6% from the same month last year.

From October last year (0.1%), November (0.6%), December (0.5%), and January this year (0.6%), the rate of increase was around 0% for four consecutive months.

By item, products rose 0.9% from a year ago.

Agricultural and livestock products rose 10.0%, showing a high increase since last November (11.1%) and December (9.7%).

Agricultural products rose 11.2%, livestock products 11.5%, and fisheries products rose 3.2%.

Eggs (15.2%) and domestic beef (10.0%) rose, and livestock consumer prices rose the highest in six years since June 2014 (12.6%).

Industrial products fell 0.6% from a year ago due to the low oil price.

Electricity, water and gas also fell by 5.0%.

Service rose 0.4%.

The impact of the increase in the minimum wage at the beginning of the year was reflected, and the rate of increase in personal service consumer prices was 1.5%.

Among them, the price of dining out was 1.1%, and the inflation rate of personal services other than dining out was 1.8%.

Public services fell 2.1% due to the impact of policies such as free education.

The rent rose 0.7% from a year ago.

Jeonse and monthly rent increase rates were 1.0% and 0.4%, respectively.

The agricultural products and petroleum exclusion index rose 0.9%, and the food and energy exclusion index rose 0.4%.

The living price index rose 0.3% from a year ago.

“Life prices are stable in terms of index, but the prices of livestock and fishery products are rising,” said Lee Jeong-hyun, head of the Statistical Office’s inflation. Showed up.”

/yunhap news