The inflation rate in Tunisia remained stable at 5.4 % in June 2025, according to a note published on Saturday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) devoted to the consumer price index.
This global stability results from two opposite dynamics: the accelerated increase in group prices “restaurants, cafes and hotels” (+11 % against +10.8 % in May) and the slowdown in the rate of increase in food prices ( +6.4 % against +6.7 %).
The underlying inflation, which excludes food and energy products, has also remained unchanged at 5.5 %.
The prices of non -supervised products increased by 6.5 % over one year, against only 1.5 % for products subject to administrative supervision.
Free food products recorded an increase of 7.2 %, compared to 0.7 % for those at supervised prices.
Food products experienced an annual inflation of 6.4 %, including the high increase in prices for fresh vegetables (+25.2 %), fresh fruit (+20.4 %), lamb meat (+19 %) and fresh fish (+10.5 %).
Conversely, food oil prices dropped by 22.7 % and those of eggs by 4.7 %.
Manufactured products saw their prices increase by 5.3 %, especially in the clothing sector (+9.3 %) and housekeeping products (+5 %).
On the service side, the increase reached 4.6 % over a year, driven by the prices of restaurants, cafes and hotels (+11 %).
In monthly variation, the consumer price index increased by 0.4 % compared to May 2025.
This increase is due to the increase in clothing prices (+1.6 %), hotel services (+5.1 %) and, more slightly, food products (+0.1 %).
In detail, lamb and beef meats increased respectively by 1.8 %and 1.5 %, while eggs (-3.6 %), poultry (-1.4 %) and fresh fruit (-1.1 %) recorded monthly reductions.
