The General Statistics Office, Ministry of Finance said that in the first 10 months of 2025, the consumer price index CPI There were 9 months of increase and 1 month of decrease compared to the previous month, affected by the law of increased consumption during holidays and Tet, the influence of world prices (rice, cooking gas, gasoline) and domestic prices (pork, electricity, home maintenance materials, rental housing).
Specifically, the CPI in January increased the most at 0.98% due to some localities increasing the price of medical services and the Lunar New Year, so the demand for goods and services and travel increased. In February, the CPI increased by 0.34% due to the increase in pork prices due to a shortage of supply and the increase in rental housing prices when a large number of workers returned to the city to find work after the Lunar New Year.
In March, CPI decreased by 0.03% due to lower prices of rice, gasoline and oil.
From April to October, CPI maintained an upward trend, with increases of 0.07%; 0.16%; 0.48%; 0.11%; 0.05%; 0.42% and 0.2% respectively, mainly due to increases in prices of rent, food, eating out, electricity and home maintenance materials.
In the first 10 months of 2025, the average CPI increased by 0.28% per month compared to the previous month. In the first 10 months of 2025, the CPI increased by 3.27% over the same period last year.
According to the report of the General Statistics Office, Ministry of Finance, many factors increased the CPI in the first 10 months of 2025 compared to the same period last year. Among them, the group with the highest price index increase was the group of medicines and medical services, up 13.39%, due to the adjustment of medical service prices according to Circular No. 21/2024/TT-BYT dated October 17, 2024 of the Ministry of Health.
The price index of the housing, electricity, water, fuel and construction materials group increased by 6.2%, due to the increase in rental housing prices and prices of housing maintenance materials. In addition, the price index of the household electricity group increased by 7.45% due to the increase in electricity demand along with the adjustment of the average retail electricity price by EVN on October 11, 2024 and May 10, 2025.
Other groups such as food and catering services increased by 3.18%, of which the food group increased by 3.43%, mainly due to the increase in pork and lard prices; the group of eating out increased by 3.74%, the food group increased by 0.47%. The price index of the education group increased by 1.95%, due to the adjustment of tuition fees by some universities, private high schools, and private kindergartens.
On the contrary, factors that reduced the CPI in the first 10 months of 2025 compared to the same period last year were the transport group index decreasing by 2.61%, in which gasoline prices decreased by 9.84%. And the price index of the post and telecommunications group decreased by 0.48%, due to the decrease in prices of old-generation phones.
Core inflation October 2025 increased by 0.35% compared to the previous month and increased by 3.3% compared to the same period last year. On average, in the first 10 months of 2025, core inflation increased by 3.2% compared to the same period last year, lower than the average CPI increase of 3.27%, mainly due to the prices of food, foodstuffs, electricity, medical services, and education services, which are factors that increase the CPI but are excluded from the list of core inflation calculations.
Source: https://baoquangninh.vn/chi-so-gia-tieu-dung-cpi-binh-quan-10-thang-nam-2025-tang-3-27-3383372.html
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