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Consumer Prices in OECD area fall 0.3% in year to August 2009
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01/10/2009 - Consumer prices in the OECD area fell by 0.3 % in the year to August 2009, compared with a fall of 0.6% in the year to July. Month-on-month, prices rose by 0.2% in August, compared with a fall of 0.2% in July 2009.
Consumer prices for energy were down by 14.4% in the year to August 2009, following a fall of 18.1% in July. Consumer prices for food were up by 0.1% in the year to August, compared with 0.6% in July. Excluding food and energy, consumer prices rose by 1.5% in the year to August 2009, compared with 1.6% in July 2009. etc.
Link to Consumer price indices for OECD countries and major non-member economies (data in index and in percentage change on the same period of the previous year).
The next publication of the OECD Consumer price indices will be on 3 November 2009
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For further information, journalists are invited to contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org; others should contact the Statistics Directorate on stat.contact@oecd.org.
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