Inflation in December was 0.84%, according to the Central Bank

Santo Domingo.- The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) reported this Thursday that the consumer price index (CPI) registered a monthly variation of 0.84% in December 2025. This, according to a statement, largely explained by the combined lagged impact of adverse weather conditions on the production of some agricultural items, which were affected by heavy rains including those associated with the storm Melissa, with a higher seasonal demand for goods during the Christmas season.

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In that sense, the BCRD reported that the year-on-year inflation measured from December 2024 to December 2025 stood at 4.95%, remaining within the target range established in the monetary program of 4.0% ± 1.0% for 32 consecutive months, that is, throughout the two years and eight months elapsed from May 2023 to date. The monetary body indicated that the variation in the CPI in the analyzed month originated, mainly, from the increases observed in the Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages group, which explained 50.17% of the inflation of the referred month. Within this group, the price increases of fresh chicken stand out, an item of high weighting in the family basket, which saw its production cycle affected due to the reasons mentioned above. Additionally, the price increases for bananas in their different varieties, ajíes, and tomatoes continued to affect, whose plantations were adversely impacted by atmospheric phenomena. Regarding core inflation, in December it stood at 0.63%, lower than the increase observed in the general CPI, which is because the core index excludes highly volatile consumer goods, such as fresh chicken and bananas. In that vein, year-on-year core inflation stood at 4.85%, also remaining within the target set by the Central Bank of 4.0% ± 1.0%. This last indicator allows to extract clearer signals for the conduct of monetary policy, because it excludes some items that do not normally respond to liquidity conditions in the economy, such as food with great variability in their prices, fuels and services with regulated prices such as the electricity tariff, transport, in addition to alcoholic beverages and tobacco.