Consumer Price Index - 1st Quarter 2025
Highlights
1. The Consumer Price Index, which stood at 103.5 in December 2024, registered a net increase of 3.3 points (or +3.2%) to reach 106.8 in March 2025.
2. The main contributors for the net increase in CPI from December 2024 to March 2025 were:
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- higher prices of vegetables (+1.1 points), ginger (+0.3 point), culinary herbs (+0.1 point) and powdered milk (+0.1 point);
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- higher prices of whisky (+0.1 point);
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- higher workman's wages (+0.2 point) and higher interest rates on housing loans (+0.1 point);
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- higher charges for domestic services (+0.1 point);
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- higher private tuition fees for secondary education (+0.1 point);
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- higher prices of prepared meals in international fast foods (+0.1 point) and in snacks (+0.1 point);
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- higher charges for home insurance (+0.2 point) and health insurance (+0.2 point);
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- higher prices of other goods and services (+0.7 point);
partly offset by
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- continued effect of lower prices of gasoline (-0.2 point).
3. The headline inflation rate for the twelve months ending March 2025 worked out to 2.5%, compared to 5.8% for the twelve months ending March 2024.
4. The headline inflation rate excluding “Alcoholic beverages and tobacco" for the twelve months ending March 2025 worked out to 2.7%, compared to 5.3% for the twelve months ending March 2024.
Statistics Mauritius
Ministry of Finance
15 April 2025
