There can be little doubt that the fight against inflation in Tunisia is continuing to make progress, with price rises limited to 5.6% in April.
The downward trajectory set in motion a few months ago is thus making good progress, with all the consequences that can be imagined for the housewife’s wallet.
According to the National Statistics Institute (INS), this decrease mainly due to the slowdown in the price of food (7.3% in April 2025 compared with 7.8% in March 2025) and clothing (9.4% in April 2025 compared with 11.7% in March 2025).
Food prices increased by 7.3% year-on-year. This increase was mainly due to the price of fresh vegetables rising by 24.3%, fresh fruit by 19.2%, sheepmeat by 18.8% and fresh fish by 10.6%, while the price of edible oils fell by 20.9%.
Industrial goods went up by 5.2%, driven by a 9.5% increase in the price of ‘clothing and footwear’ and a 4.7% rise in the price of ‘household goods’.
In services, prices rose by 4.7% year-on-year, mainly due to an 11.5% increase in the price of services in the “restaurants, cafés and hotels” group.
The core inflation rate (excluding food and energy) fell to 5.5% from 5.7% in March 2025. According to the INS, prices of unbound products rose by 6.8% year-on-year, while prices of regulated products rose by 1.7%.
Prices for non-regulated food rose by 8.2%, compared with 1.1% for regulated food.
The ‘Manufactured goods’ and ‘Fresh food’ groups were the main contributors to overall inflation, at 2% and 2.2% respectively, the INS said.
Among the food groups, the ‘Free non-food’ and ‘Free food’ groups made the biggest contribution to inflation, at 3.2% and 2% respectively.
Consumer prices up slightly by 0.6% in April
Over one month, consumer prices rose by 0.6% in April 2025, compared with 0.9% in March. This increase was mainly due to a 4.2% rise in clothing prices.
Food prices, on the other hand, remained stable. The stability of prices in the food group in April 2025 is due, on the one hand, to decreases in the prices of eggs (-2.9%), fresh vegetables (-1.1%) and poultry (-0.3%) and, on the other hand, to increases in the prices of sheepmeat (+1.9%), beef (+0.7%) and fresh fruit (+0.7%), according to the INS.
Clothing prices up 4.2% in April 2025
In April 2025, clothing prices rose by 4.2% and footwear prices by 4.9%, due to the end of the winter sales.
