In January 2025 theinflation record a slight increasegoing from 1.3% of December 2024 to 1.5%. An increase mainly due to the end of the deflationary thrust on energy prices, which mark -0.7% compared to -2.8% of the previous month, thanks to a strong rise in the prices of the regulated component ( +27.5% compared to +12 , 7% of December). It detects theIstat.
Stopping the shopping cart
The provisional data at the beginning of the month is therefore confirmed; The prices of food goods They remain overall stable in tendential terms ( +1.9%), despite the increase of 0.9%compared to December, as well as those of the sub-component of the processed food, which stop at +1.7%. Instead, unworthy foods slowly slow down (from +2.3% to +2.2%).
More in detail, among the unspecified food, there is a deceleration of the prices of fresh or chilled plants, excluding the potatoes (from +3.0% to +1.6%; +1.5% on December), and, albeit to a lower extent, than those of the fresh fruit or refrigerated (from +2.2% to +2.1%; +0.5% on December).
In the service sector, the rhythm of price growth on an annual basis remains stable at +2.6%. At a more detailed level, a deceleration is observed in the prices of services related to transport (from +3.6% to +2.5%; -2.3% on December), above all due to the reduction of costs in maritime transport and in internal waterways (from +11.1% to +5 , 7%; -2.8% on December) and passenger air transport (from +5.7% to +4.5%; -22.7% on December, also for seasonal factors).
On the contrary, passenger transport prices on rail accelerate (from +1.8% to +2.1%; +1.2% on December). Finally, the prices of recreational, cultural and personal care services see a moderate increase in their growth rhythm (from +3.1% to +3.3%; +0.4% on December).
To record the dear bills on the increase
The evolution of the prices of goods mainly reflects that of energy assets, whose flexion in January is decidedly more contained (from -2.8% to -0.7%; +3.4% on December), due to a strong rise in the prices of regulated energy goods (from +12.7 % to +27.5%; +14.2% on December).
In particular, electricity prices in the protected market reverses the trend (from -7.8% to +21.6%; +19.6% on December). On the contrary, i Gas prices of city and natural gas in the protected market show a significant slowdown in their tendential growth (from +30.3% to +19.8%; +0.9% on December).
“Dear-energy continues to keep consumers hostage with direct negative effects on the inflation rate,” explains the president of Solos Gabriele Melluso. “The fear is that the recent rates recorded on international energy markets can bring new increases of the bills of light and gas shortly to all markets currently in force, with cascade effects not only for families but also for businesses “.
Stuck from 520 euros for couples with 2 children
“Bad early year – Tuona Massimiliano Dona, president of theNational Consumer Unioncommenting on the Istat data on inflation – 2025 could not begin worse than this, with an inflation that, despite a GDP growth of zero both in the third and in the fourth quarter 2024, takes off in a single month of 0.6 %. To do as a tow, as we have been denouncing for some time and also confirms Istat, the dear bills, against which the government, despite the announcements of imminent interventions, has not yet done anything and continues to take and waste time, while the families They struggle to get to the end of the month “.
Tendential inflation equal to +1.5% involves, for a couple with two children, an increase in the cost of living in total equal to 520 euros On an annual basis, “and it is serious that as many as 192 euros more go only for food products and soft drinks and even 212 for the shopping cart, a real sting”. For a couple with 1 child, the annual additional expenditure is equal to 471 eurosbut 170 euros are only for food and drinks and 190 for food goods, for the care of the home and the person. On average, for a family, “Eating and drinking now costs 133 euros more” concludes Dona.
