According to a bulletin issued on Saturday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), Tunisia’s inflation rate remained stable at 5.4% in June 2025, focusing on the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The INS attributes this stability to an accelerated increase in prices in the ‘restaurants, cafés and hotels’ group (11% in June 2025 compared with 10.8% in May 2025) and a deceleration in the pace of food price rises (6.4% in June 2025 compared with 6.7% in May 2025).
Core inflation, excluding food and energy, remained stable at 5.5%.
Prices of unregulated products increased by 6.5% year-on-year, while regulated products rose by just 1.5%.
Food products sold at free-market prices recorded a 7.2% rise, compared with just 0.7% for food products with regulated prices.
Prices in the food category rose by 6.4% year-on-year, primarily due to increases in the prices of fresh vegetables (25.2%), fresh fruit (20.4%), lamb (19%) and fresh fish (10.5%).
Conversely, the prices of edible oils and eggs fell by 22.7% and 4.7%, respectively.
Prices of manufactured goods and services increased by 5.3% over the year due to a 9.3% rise in clothing and footwear prices and a 5% rise in household cleaning product prices.
Prices for services posted a 4.6% rise over the year due to an 11% increase in prices for services in the ‘restaurants, cafés and hotels’ group.
Consumer prices rose by 0.4% in June.
Compared with the previous month, consumer prices increased by 0.4% in June 2025, mainly due to a 1.6% rise in clothing prices, a 1.1% increase in the ‘Restaurants and hotels’ group, and a 0.1% increase in food prices.
The ‘Food and beverages’ group saw a slight month-on-month increase of 0.1%, driven by rises of 1.8% in lamb prices and a 1.5% rise in beef prices.
Meanwhile, egg prices fell by 3.6%, while poultry prices fell by 1.4% and fresh fruit prices by 1.1%.
In June, clothing and footwear prices increased by 1.6%, with clothing prices rising by 1.8% and footwear prices by 1.5%.
Meanwhile, the ‘restaurants, cafés and hotels’ group saw prices rise by 1.1%, primarily due to a 5.1% increase in accommodation service prices.
TunisianMonitorOnline (INS)
