The Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics (IHSI) informs us that on monthly basis, the level of the General Index of consumer prices in Haiti (base 100 - August 2004), rose from 195.9 to 196.7 during the month of July 2012, or an increase of 0.4%. . On an annual basis, some acceleration in prices was observed, or an annualized inflation of 5.3% in July against 4.9% the previous month.

The monthly variation recorded results from the upward trend in all functions of consumption: "Food Beverages and Tobacco" (0.2%) "Clothing and Textiles, Footwear" (1.0%), "Rent Housing, Energy and Water "(0.7%), "Equipment, Maintenance of the Housing" (0.3%), "Health" (0.6%), "Transport" (0.3%), "Leisure, Entertainment, Education and Culture" (0.5%) and "Other Goods and Services" (0.5%).

The increase in "Food, Beverages and Tobacco" comes particularly of rice prices (0.5%), of the wheat flour (0.4%), of spaghetti (0.7%), of bread (0.4%) of beef (1.5%) of smoked herring (5.0%), salt herring (5.0%), cod (2.5%), of the chayote (3.6%), green pea (0.8%), malanga (4.5%), and papaya (1.9%).

The increase found for "Clothing and Textiles, Footwear," is in inflation because of the behavior of products such as fabrics (2.7%), pants (0.7%), dress (1.2%), petticoat (0.7%), shoes and tennis (0.9%) and sandals (1.3%).

The index of "Rent Housing, Energy and Water" is mainly due to the increase of the rent of housing, which rose 1.7%.

The growth of the index "Health" is consecutive to the prices of prescription glasses (2.5%), fees paid to physicians (1.1%), laboratory tests, X-rays (0.2%) and hospitalization (0.3%).

HL/ HaitiLibre