The rise in consumer prices in France slowed to 5.6% year on year in September, against 5.9% in August, INSEE reported on Friday, confirming its first estimate.
This deceleration is due to the "slowdown in the prices of services (+ 3.2% after 3.9%) and energy (+ 17.9% after 22.7%)", specifies the National Institute of Statistics .
But the increase in food products, to which the poorest households devote a larger share of their income, accelerated over one year, rising from 7.9% in August to 9.9% in September.
Prices of manufactured goods remain stable
Increases in manufactured goods have remained stable, with the annual rate of increase dropping from 3.5% to 3.6%.
Over one month, the consumer price index finally fell by 0.6%, against 0.5% during the first estimate made at the end of September.
This fall in the level of prices compared to August is the result in particular of a contraction in the prices of services (-1.5%) "due to the seasonal decline more marked than last year in the prices of certain services linked to the tourism", details INSEE in its press release.
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Still over one month, energy prices for their part fell for the third consecutive month, but the decline (-2.6%) was less pronounced than in August (-3.9%), despite the entry effective September 1 of a temporary discount of 30 cents on a liter of fuel at the pump.
The rise in prices of manufactured products slowed to 0.9% over one month, against 1.8% in August, as well as that of food (+ 1.1% after 1.7%).
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Finally, the harmonized consumer price index (HICP), which serves as a basis for comparison at European level, is confirmed up by 6.2% over one year and down by 0.5% over one month.
In the opinion of the government and most economists, this slowdown in inflation in France is only temporary.
A sustained decline is not expected before the second quarter of 2023.
