Consumer price index
CPI annual rate of change was -0.2% in February
- February 2015
11 March 2015
Summary
The CPI recorded an annual rate of change of -0.2% in February 2015 (-0.4% in the previous month). Excluding energy and unprocessed food, the annual rate remained unchanged from the previous month, 0.3%. The CPI monthly rate was -0.1% (-1.4% in January 2015 and -0.3% in February 2014), while the CPI 12-month average rate kept the same result, -0.3%.
In February 2015, the Portuguese Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) annual rate of change was -0.1% (-0.4% in January), 0.2 percentage points (p.p.) above the rate estimated by Eurostat for the Euro area (same difference as in the previous month).