What has changed in April

That of 2025 was one Easter just savory for Italians, with sensitive prices for prices for food in April and some consumer products that record two -digit increases compared to 2024. According to Istat data, for the so -called “Shopping cart” The increase from +2.1% to +2.6% is confirmed. In April 2025 inflation It is maintained at the same level of March (+1.9%), with the institution that slightly retouched the initial estimate (2%) spread on April 30th.

All spending divisions

Despite the slight retouching, the Spring stumbled On the pockets of the Italians already analyzed last month, with the retail prices that record a surge in some sectors:

• home, water, electricity and fuels +4.6%;
• receptive and catering services +3.9%;
• Food products and soft drinks +3.2%;
• education +3.0%;
• other goods and services +2.6%;
• Alcoholic drinks and tobacco +1.8%;
• health services and health expenses +1.5%;
• recreation, shows and culture +1.0%;
• clothing and footwear +0.8%;
• Furniture, articles and services for the home +0.4%;
• transport -0.8%;
• communications -4.7%.

The price of petrol falls

The tendential dynamics of assets is mainly influenced by the deceleration of the prices of goods energyfrom +2.6% to -0.8% on an annual basis and -5.8% on a monthly basis, for example the price of petrol. Above all they slow down those unregulated, for example:

• electricity free market (from +0.7% to -5.5% tendential; -9.3% on March);
• Gas of city and natural gas free market (from +7.5% to +1.7% tendential; -8.8% on March);
• petrol (from -3.9% to -8.6% tendential; -2.6% on March);
• diesel for means of transport (from -6.0% to -8.9% tendential; -3.3% on March);
• diesel for heating (from -6.5% to -9.0% tendential; -2.7% on March).

Instead, the prices of the protected market goods are growing, in particular the electricity that rises compared to last year of +46.5% (from +21.6%).

The shopping cart is growing

Increases the growth rhythm of the “shopping cart” prices, which increase to +2.6% from +2.1% last month. Assoutenti in a note released this morning ago the point on food prices grown significantly in April; like the butterwhich on an annual basis of +17.8, and of the coffeewhich even increases by 21.7%. The good king of Easter, the chocolate, accelerates the rise trend and salt by +12% and the cocoa of +15.6%. Tensions also on the chicken egg front, among the most consumed products at Easter, whose prices increase by +5.7% on year, but the list of increases is long:

• soft drinks +8.7%;
• citrus +9.5%;
• salad +7.5%;
• beef +4.8%
• sheep meat +4.9%
• cheeses and dairy products +4.8%.

“Increased increases only determined by the crisis of the raw materials that are affecting the prices of some products, and which are also caused by speculative phenomena linked to the greatest consumption of families during the holidays”, explains President Gabriele Melluso.

The increases in families

The fact that the tendential inflation has remained at +1.9% must not suggest that the trend is positive, both because the inflation remains high and because it changes the composition of that 1.9%, with a worrying rise especially for the food sector. The National Consumer Union makes calculations on what these increases impact in the pockets of Italians:

“Translated in terms of increasing the cost of living, it means that for a couple with two children as many as 292 euros more they go only for food products and soft drinks, 308 for the shopping cart, i.e. for the obliged expenses. A real sting. For a couple with 1 child, 259 euros are for food and drinks, 276 for food goods, for the care of the house and the person”

Below, here is the list of all the spending divisions developed by the UN: