The slowdown in inflation seen in May 2026 in Haiti’s consumer market continued into June, reflecting a further deceleration in the pace of consumer price increases, according to the Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics (IHSI) in its June 2026 report on the evolution of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The slowdown in inflation observed in May 2026 in Haiti’s consumer market continued into June, reflecting a further deceleration in the pace of consumer price increases, according to the Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics (IHSI) in its June 2026 publication on the evolution of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The General Consumer Price Index (CPI, base 100 in 2017-2018), which stood at 617.9 in May 2026, rose to 624.0 in June of the same year, recording monthly and annual disinflation rates of 1% and 18.9% in June, compared to 1.2% and 20% in the previous month, noted the IHSI in its monthly section titled “The CPI Corner.”
The products that were mainly behind the slowdown in the annual rise of the CPI in June, according to the IHSI’s findings, are:
Food and non-alcoholic beverages: Rice (22.4% in June, compared to 23.6% in May), Corn (18.4% in June, compared to 20% in May), Meats (26.6% in May, compared to 27.4% in May), Fresh fish (25.7% in June, compared to 26.7% in May), Herring (21.4% in June, compared to 23.0% in May), Edible oil (19.6% in June, compared to 20.8% in May), Bananas (19.2% in June, compared to 19.7% in May) and Peas (21.2% in June, compared to 22.1% in May).
Clothing and footwear: Fabrics (20.3% in June, compared to 20.5% in May), Garment making (18.2% in May, compared to 18.3% in April) and Suit, universal jacket (18.6% in June, compared to 20.3% in May).
Housing, water, gas, electricity, and other fuels: Rent (19% in June, compared to 22% in May), Charcoal (26.9% in June, compared to 27.5% in May), Kerosene (27.6% in June, compared to 37.4% in May).Transport: Private vehicle maintenance (25.2% in June, compared to 26% in May), Gasoline and diesel (27.4% in June, compared to 30% in May).
Restaurants: Meals eaten out (23.6% in June, compared to 23.6% in May).
As always, prices for local and imported products haven’t changed at the same rate. In fact, for June 2026, prices for local products increased by 19.7%, while imported products went up by 17.6%. That’s a slowdown compared to May, when local product prices had risen by 20.6% and imported products had only increased by 19%.From a regional perspective, the metropolitan area that includes the municipalities of Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Pétion-Ville, Carrefour, Tabarre, and Cité Soleil is the region that had the highest inflation rate in June 2026, at 19.8%. It is followed by the Rest of the West region, which includes the municipalities of the Southeast and West Departments excluding the metropolitan area, with an inflation rate of 19.4%.
In third place is the Transversal region, which includes the Center and Artibonite Departments, with an inflation rate of 18.8%. The South region, which includes the South, Grande-Anse, and Nippes Departments, comes in fourth with an inflation rate of 18%.
Meanwhile, the North region, which includes the North, Northeast, and Northwest Departments, had the lowest inflation last June, with a rate of 16.9%.
