Keyword: "CPI"

CPI in January 2026 rose 0.05% month-on-month, with urban areas up 0.02% and rural areas up 0.09%. Of the 11 major commodity and service groups, nine recorded price hikes while two saw declines.

Average CPI in 2025 rose by 3.3% compared with 2024, meeting the target set by the National Assembly.

The NSO reported that December's CPI climbed 0.19% from November and 3.48% from a year earlier. Fourth-quarter average CPI went up 3.44% year-on-year.

The first 11 months, the index rose by 3.29%. With this result, the full-year CPI will certainly be kept below 4%, meeting the target set by the National Assembly and pursued by the Government.

The 15th National Assembly (NA) on November 13 approved a Resolution on Vietnam’s socio-economic development plan for 2026, setting 15 major targets, including a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 10% or higher.

The National Statistics Office reported that core inflation last month rose 0.19% from the previous month and 3.25% year-on-year. Core inflation for the first eight months of the year grew 3.19% year-on-year on average. ​

Core inflation - stripping out volatile components such as food, fuel, and state-regulated services - rose 3.19% in the eight months, suggesting that underlying price trends remain relatively stable.

Vietnam's core inflation in July increased 0.21% month-on-month and 3.3% year-on-year. The seven-month figure of 3.18% remained slightly lower than the overall CPI increase thanks to the exclusion of volatile sectors like food, energy, health care, and education

The Ministry of Finance projects Vietnam's CPI will rise 3.7–4% in the remaining five months of 2025. International organisations forecast Vietnam’s average inflation at between 2.9% and 4.2% for the year, leaving room for monthly increases of 1.19–1.58% without breaching the year-end inflation target.

Thailand’s consumer price index (CPI) declined for a third consecutive month in June, attributed to lower energy and food prices, though there are no signs of deflation, according to the country’s Commerce Ministry.

The CPI in June rose by 0.48% compared to the previous month, with urban areas up 0.5% and rural areas up 0.45%. The country’s June CPI climbed 3.57% year-on-year.

For the first five months of 2025, the CPI increased by 3.21% from the same period last year, while core inflation went up 3.1%.

On average, the CPI over the first five months climbed 3.03% year-on-year, reflecting a stable and well-controlled upward trend in prices.

Major contributors to the four-month CPI hike included food and catering services, which rose by 3.86% year-on-year and contributed 1.3 percentage points to the overall CPI growth, according to the National Statistics Office.

In April, prices rose in eight out of 11 groups of main consumer goods and services, two groups saw price declines, and one remained unchanged.

In response to these trends, economic experts have recommended Hanoi to implement a range of measures to manage inflation in the coming months. They emphasised the need to strengthen price monitoring of essential goods, particularly food, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare services.

The Government has implemented numerous measures to keep market prices stable and inflation under control.

The CPI for the first quarter of 2025 increased by 2.75% compared to the same period last year, indicating that inflation remains well under control.

Economists said Singapore's inflation will continue to ease in the months ahead, with a chance that consumer prices might even drop if the global economy takes a sharp turn downwards.