In April 2017, the Italian consumer price index increased by 0.4% on monthly basis and by 1.9% compared with April 2016 (up from +1.4% in March). The flash estimate was +1.8%.

In April, the speed up of the annual rate of change of All items index was mainly due to prices of Regulated energy products (+5.7%, from -1.2% in the previous month), to which contributed both Electric energy (+5.4%, from -1.0% in March) and Natural gas (+5.9%, from -1.4%), and also to prices of Services related to transport (+5.5%, up from +2.5% in the previous month).

Excluding energy and unprocessed food, core inflation was +1.1%, up from +0.7% in March; excluding energy the inflation was +1.3% (up from +1.2% in the previous month).