SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 21JUL 2021

www.ine.pt page 1/12 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt Statistics Portugal makes available the weekly report for monitoring the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report covers the press releases concerning: - Consumer price index – June 2021, published on 12 July; - Perspectives on Exports of Goods – 2 nd Forecast 2021, published on 12 July; - Business turnover, employment, wages and hours worked indices in services – May 2021, published on 13 July; - Tourism activity – May 2021, published on 15 July; - House prices statistics at local level – 1 st Quarter of 2021, published on 15 July; - Construction and housing statistics – 2020, published on 16 July; - Vital Statistics - Monthly data – June 2021, published on 16 July; - Industrial production price index – June 2021, published on 16 July. For further details, see the links available throughout this press release. July. 21 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 CPI year-on-year rate of change falls to 0.5% Consumer price index In June 2021, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) registered the following year-on-year rates of change: • Total CPI: 0.5% (1.2% in the previous month). This deceleration is partly explained by the base effect resulting from the June 2020 price increase in the final phase of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic containment measures; • Core inflation indicator (total index excluding unprocessed food products and energy): -0.3% (0.6% in the previous month); • Energy index: 9.0% (9.9% in the previous month); • Unprocessed food products index: 0.1% (-0.1% in the previous month).