Data from the National Statistics Institute shows that the cost of living in January rose across the board by 4,19%.

Data from the National Statistics Institute released this week shows that the education and food and non-alcoholic beverages divisions saw the biggest price rises, varying by 13.85%, 7.05%, respectively.

On the other hand, the less accentuated rise is fundamentally explained by the favorable behavior of the prices of Education and Health services, compared to the same period last year.

The data also shows that the rise in the general price level was registered in all the collection centers, with the city of Quelimane (1.73%) standing out the most, followed by the cities of Beira (1.00%).

Compared to the previous month, the variation was 0.93%. In this comparison, "the food, non-alcoholic beverages, restaurants, hotels, cafés and similar divisions were the most noteworthy, contributing around 0.65 and 0.17 percentage points (pp) to the total monthly change".

Of the products that have become more expensive for consumers, tomatoes have risen in price by 17.5%, complete restaurant meals by 3.1%, dried fish by 7.4%, followed by cabbage, brown sugar, cooking oil and lettuce.

"However, some products, especially horse mackerel and live chickens (2.1%), lemons, fresh fish, men's pants, ladies' hairdressing services and nutrition-related medicines, bucked the upward trend in prices by contributing around 0.11 pp to the total monthly change," writes INE,

According to the source, the assessment of the risks and uncertainties associated with inflation projections is more favorable. Possible factors for reducing inflation include fiscal consolidation efforts, less severe extreme weather events and the less serious impact of geopolitical conflicts on the logistics chain and on commodity prices on the international market.