According to data shared by the Department of Statistics and Trends of the Center of Storekeepers and Retail Merchants of the Province of Córdobato the Inflation for the month of April reached 8.24%.
With these data, the Accumulated Inflation during the first quarter of the year, reached 30.78%. For its part, the interannual rate is 111.18%.
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Regarding the basic food basket, a family of 4 members needed $211,192.54 to basically cover food and non-food expenses. The line of indigence – for that same type of family of 4 members – stood at $115,547 68.
THE PRODUCTS THAT INCREASED THE MOST IN APRIL 2023
+ Rice + 42.00%
+ Cocoa + 33.60%
+ Sugar + 33.50%
+ Mayonnaise + 31.00%
+ Fresh pasta + 30.00%
+ Polenta+ 29.00%
+ Sunflower Oil + 27.00%
+ Dried noodles + 26.00%
+ Sweet cookies + 25.40%
+ Butter + 25.35%
+ Yerba mate + 22.50%
+ Wheat flour + 22.30%
+ Crackers + 22.11%
+ Yogurts + 20.75%
+ Fluid milk + 18.00%
+ Fresh chicken + 17.11%
+ Fresh Cheese + 16.25%
Other data is that 46.2% of Households could NOT access during April 2023 to all the foods that make up the Basic Food Basket.
People who IF could fully access the Basic Basket:
+ Only 26.6% were able to do it with their own resources
+ The remaining 73.4% were assisted with some type of state aid.
In the same line, the 79.3% of Family Groups should have spent during April, more than 50% of their total income, only in food. He 87.4% of Households had to finance food with credit cards and/or borrowed money.
Almost 30% of the families had to sell some property of their property, to meet essential expenses of their family group.