It is one of the 23 food and beverage groups that INE separates in its statistics. CPIIn 2023, the Canary Islands recorded the highest increase in eight (more than a third), while the lowest indices were more dispersed; Aragon (5) and Murcia (4) were at the forefront.
The five biggest increases across the country (what INE calls “headlines”) are oils and fats (36.3%), legumes and fresh vegetables (13.2%), pork (12.3%), fresh fruits (11.8%) and mutton (9.7%).
Oils and fats rose rapidly in Madrid but rose less in Cantabria; legumes have become more expensive in the Canary Islands and cheaper in Cantabria; The price of pork increased more in Aragon and less in Galicia; fresh fruits more in the Atlantic archipelago, less in the Mediterranean; and mutton was more abundant in Extremadura but fell in Asturias.
Top risers
The cost of oils and fats, which are most affected by the increase in food prices, is 39.7% in Madrid, 39.1% in La Rioja, 38.9% in Extremadura, 38.4% in Catalonia and 37% in Andalusia, When reaching 2; It was “only” 25.1% in Cantabria, 30.4% in the Basque Country and 33.1% in the Canary Islands.
Additionally, the price of fresh legumes and vegetables has increased across Spain; In the Canary Islands it was 25.3%, in Murcia (17.2%), in the Balearic Islands (16.6%) and Andalusia (15.2%), and the proportion was less than a third. Atlantic archipelago – in Cantabria (7.9%), Basque Country (8.0%) and Aragon (8.4%).
In Asturias, meat prices increased more than beef (11.8%); sheep in Extremadura (13.6%) and the Valencian Community (13.5%); pork in Aragon (17.5%), Murcia (16.9%) and Navarra (16.0%); and in poultry in Castilla-La Mancha (3.5%), Asturias and Catalonia (both 3.2%).
On the other hand, beef decreased in Murcia (-0.8%); sheep in Asturias (-1.8%) and the Balearic Islands (-1.3%); and that of birds in Galicia (-2.6%).
Fresh fruits increased in all communities; up to 16.4% in the Canary Islands, 15.2% in the Valencian Community and between 14 and 14.7% in Cantabria, La Rioja and the Basque Country, 6.5% in the Balearic Islands and the Balearic Islands increased by 7.4%. Aragon.
Most resistant to climbing
Milk was the only product to become cheaper in most communities last year, with an average of 1.3%, led by Murcia (-2.15%), the Basque Country (-2.2%) and Madrid and Andalusia (-2.1%). It increased further in the Canary archipelago (3.0%), Navarra (1.3%) and Galicia (0.8%).
The increase in dairy products in the Canary Islands reached 7.2%, ahead of the other archipelagos, the Balearic Islands (5.9%), while prices in this category were in the Basque Country (-1.7%), Murcia (-1%) ,1) and Galicia (-0.6%).
The price of eggs increased at more than twice the average (4.4%) in the Canary Islands (10.7%) and at no more than twice that rate in Cantabria (8.0%) and Madrid (7.6%). 0.5% and Extremadura (1.10%).
Cereals and their derivatives increased the most in the Canary Islands, at 7.1%; this rate was more than twice that of Aragon (3.2%) or Asturias and Extremadura (3.5%); and bread increased in Murcia (4.1%), decreased in Extremadura (-0.2%), remained stable in Navarra (0.0%) and Aragon (0.3%), Basque Country’ It increased only slightly in (0.5%) and Asturias (0.6). %).
Fresh or frozen fish has become more expensive in four communities in the north of the peninsula; two of these were coastal: 6.4% in the Basque Country, 5.7% in Navarra; 5.4% in La Rioja; and 5.1% in Cantabria; but it grew less in another coastal region, Murcia (1.1%), and in two inland regions: Madrid and Castilla y León (both 3.3%, the same as in Andalusia).
However, Madrid is the region with the highest increase in crustacean, mollusc and fish preparations (6.6%), slightly above Cantabria (6.3%), compared with Navarra (3.1%) and the Canary Islands (3.2%) happened.
The cost of potatoes and their preparations increased by 18.2% in the Canary Islands last year, three times the average (6.8%) and more than 10% in La Rioja and Navarra, but only 2.7% in Valencia. In the Community, this rate decreased by less than 5% in Asturias, the Balearic Islands and the Basque Country, and even by 2.7% in Murcia.
Other headings that increased relatively less were coffee, cocoa and infusions (6.0%) and sugar (6.2%), with the highest rates in both cases being in the Balearic Islands and the highest at 7.2% and 11.9% respectively. The lowest rates are in Aragon with 3.9 and 2.3. % in each of these communities.
As for beverages, mineral water, soft drinks and juices increased by up to 13% in La Rioja and between 11 and 12% in Galicia, the Balearic Islands and Madrid, with smaller increases in Cantabria (5.0%), Aragon (5.5%)), Asturias (6.6%) and Catalonia (6.8%).
Alcoholic beverages made the least difference, however, despite a 6.6% increase in Murcia, double the 3.3% increase in Galicia.
Other meats, preserved fruits and nuts, legumes and vegetable preparations and other food preparations from the 23 food and drink categories allocated by the INE are not included in this information.