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PCBS | PCBS: The Consumer Price Index During, May, 05/2021

 

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

 

Slight Increase in the Consumer Price Index CPI during May, 05/2021

 

 

The overall CPI for Palestine during May 2021 Recorded a slight Increase by 0.08% compared with April 2021 (by 0.26% in the West Bank**, and by 0.24% in Jerusalem J1*, while it decreased by 0.61% in Gaza Strip).   

 

The changes in Palestinian CPI for May 2021 were traced back to changes in prices of the following expenditure sub groups compared with previous month:

 

Sub Groups

Percent Change

Fresh Fruit

+ 6.43%

Fresh Chicken

+ 1.74%

Gas

+ 0.71%

Fresh Meat

+ 0.41%

Dried Vegetables

- 17.93%

Eggs

- 11.32%

Fresh Vegetables

- 5.52%

Fish, Live, Fresh, Chilled, or Frozen

- 2.61%

Potatoes and other Tubers

- 1.89%

Vegetable Oil

- 1.11%

 

The Palestinian CPI during May 2021 increased by 2.30% compared with May 2020 (by 2.99% in Jerusalem J1*, by 2.89% in the West Bank**, and with a slight increase by 0.01% in Gaza Strip).

 

 

 

 

Notice for Users:

·      Due to COVID-19 pandemic and inability to conduct face-to-face interview, data for Consumer Price Index has been collected using mobile phones, in all of the Palestinian Governorates’ interviews.

 

Notes:

*Data represent those parts of Jerusalem, which were annexed by Israeli Occupation in 1967.

 

**Data exclude those parts of Jerusalem, which were annexed by Israeli Occupation in 1967.

 

Please note that the press release in English is brief compared to the Arabic version

 

 

 

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