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 Consumer price index (12-month average growth rate - Base 2012 - %)
Characteristic Description
Name Consumer price index (12-month average growth rate - Base 2012 - %) by Geographic localization and Special aggregates; Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Consumer price index
First available period December 1949
Last available period December 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Geographic localization
  • Special aggregates
Concepts
  • CONSUMER PRICE:  Amount paid by households when acquiring individual goods and services based on monetary transactions. This amount corresponds to the value actually paid at the moment of acquisition and includes all indirect taxes minus subsidies on products, reductions and discounts, applied to consumers in general, and excludes interest and other costs associated with credit purchase.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
Definition The average change in the past twelve months compares the level of the average price index of the past twelve months with the preceding twelve months. As a moving average, this rate of change is less sensitive to one-off price changes. The value obtained in December is being used as a reference at the social agreement level, and is thus associated with the annual inflation rate.
Formule

[(CPI year n)/ (CPI year (n-1))-1]*100

Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 13/01/2026


information presented in 4/2/2026