Tunisia’s inflation rate remained stable in June 2025, holding at 5.4%, according to a note released Saturday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The INS attributed this stability to two factors: the acceleration in the rate of price increases in the ‘Restaurants, cafés and hotels’ group (11% in June 2025 compared to 10.8% in May 2025), and the slowdown in the rate of price increases in food products (6.4% in June 2025 compared to 6.7% in May 2025).
Core inflation (excluding food and energy) remained stable at 5.5%.
Prices for unregulated products increased by 6.5% year-on-year, while prices for regulated products increased by 1.5%. Prices for unregulated food products rose by 7.2%, compared with a rise of 0.7% for regulated food products.
Food prices rose by 6.4% year-on-year. This was mainly due to rises 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.
The prices of manufactured goods and services rose by 5.3% over the year due to a 9.3% increase in clothing and footwear prices and a 5% increase in household cleaning product prices.
Prices for services rose by 4.6% over the year. This was mainly due to a 11% increase in prices within the ‘restaurants, cafés and hotels’ category.
Consumer prices rise by 0.4% in June
Compared with the previous month, consumer prices rose by 0.4% in June 2025.
According to the INS, this increase is mainly due to rises in clothing prices (1.6%), restaurant and hotel prices (1.1%) and food prices (0.1%).
Prices in the ‘food and beverages’ group rose slightly by 0.1% over the month, following increases in lamb prices (+1.8%) and beef prices (+1.5%). Conversely, egg prices fell by 3.6%. The same applies to poultry (-1.4%) and fresh fruit (-1.1%).
The price of clothing and footwear rose by 1.6%. Prices for clothing went up by 1.8%, while prices for footwear rose by 1.5%.
Meanwhile, prices in the ‘restaurants, cafés and hotels’ group increased by 1.1%. This increase can be attributed to a 5.1% rise in accommodation service prices.
