Consumer Price Index
Figures released by the Institute show that the All-Items Consumer Price Index for September 2019 stood at 105.3, a decrease of 0.1 percent from 105.4 in September 2018. On average, during this month in 2019, the prices of goods and services regularly purchased by Belizean households were 0.1 percent lower than they were in the same month of 2018. Higher prices for various food items as well as tertiary education were off set by lower prices for fuel, home rental costs and international airfares. The cumulative inflation rate for the first nine months of 2019, when compared to the same period in 2018, stood at 0.2 percent.
Click the following link to read more: Consumer Price Index, September 2019
Merchandise Trade
In September 2019, Belize imported goods valuing $141.9 million. This represented a 0.6 percent or $0.9 million decrease from the same month last year. Merchandise imports for the period January to September 2019 totalled $1.4 billion, representing a 2.8 percent or $39.2 million increase from the same nine-month period last year.
The total value of Belize’s domestic exports for the month of September 2019 was just over $35 million, down 7 percent or $2.6 million from the $37.7 million recorded for September 2018. Merchandise exports for the period January to September 2019 totalled just over $333 million, up 5.2 percent or $16.5 million from that same period last year.
Click the following link to read more: External Trade, September 2019
