In September 2018, according to preliminary estimates, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) decreased by 0.4% on monthly basis and increased by 1.5% compared with September 2017 (+1.6% in August 2018).

The slight slowdown of the growth on annual basis of All items index was mainly due to prices of Unprocessed food (from +3.1% of the previous month to +2.4%) of Services related to transport (from +2.8% to +2.5%) and to prices of Non-regulated energy products (from +9.5% to +9.3%) whose growth was still wide.

Inflation excluding energy and unprocessed food (core inflation) was +0.8% (the same annual rate of change observed in August) and inflation excluding energy was +1.0% (down +1.1% of August).