The decline in food prices by 0.2% after an increase of 0.9% the previous month.
In April 2020 and compared to March 2020, the Household Final Consumer Price Index increased by 0.6% after +0.4% the previous month. This increase in prices is mainly due to the increase in transport prices (+4.0% after +0.8% the previous month), and leisure and culture (+1.7% after stability last month). On the other hand, the prices of food products (-0.2% after +0.9% the previous month) fell due to the fall in the prices of oils and fats (-1.8%, after -0.1% last month), vegetables (-1.6% after +0.4% the previous month), milks, cheeses and eggs (-0.4% after +1.1% the previous month), and to a lesser extent meat (-0.1% after +0.4% the previous month). The fall in vegetable prices is due in particular to the fall in fresh fruit or root vegetables (fresh onion, fresh okra, fresh tomato, green bean) as well as tubers and plantains (unripe plantain, fresh unripe banana, potato, sweet potato, fresh cassava in tubers). Meat prices fell in line with the fall in the prices of live chicken (-5.7%) and pig meat (-1.9%).
