{"id":59945,"date":"2021-06-15T09:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=59945"},"modified":"2024-06-11T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T05:11:42","slug":"dubai-annual-price-index-drops-by-2-80-in-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-annual-price-index-drops-by-2-80-in-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Annual Price Index Drops by 2.80% in May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report issued by <a href=\"https:\/\/dubaiverse.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai<\/a> Statistics Center (DSC) states that the annual general index of consumer prices dropped by 2.80% in May 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, due to a decrease in the prices of: Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels division dropped by 8.42%, which reduced the index by 3.40 points, Foods and Beverages division dropped by 3.70%, which reduced the index by 0.51 points, Recreation and culture division dropped by 0.87%, which reduced the index by 0.02 points, Tobacco division dropped by 0.55% and Health division dropped by 0.04%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, prices of Transport division increased by 9.33%, which pushed the index by 0.96 points, Clothing and Footwear division increased by 2.90%, which pushed the index by 0.06 points, Restaurants and Hotels division increased by 1.07%, which pushed the index by 0.05 points, Miscellaneous Goods and Services division increased by 0.35%, which pushed the index by 0.02 points, Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance division increased by 0.34%, which pushed the index by 0.01 points, Communication division increased by 0.22%, which pushed the index by 0.01 points,\u00a0 Education division increased by 0.14%, which pushed the index by 0.01 points.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer Price Index Drops by 0.05% in May 2021<\/p>\n<p>General monthly index of consumer prices dropped by 0.05% in May 2021 compared to April 2021 as a result of prices drop of: Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels division by 0.46%, which reduced the index by 0.18 points, Recreation and culture division dropped by 1.77%, which reduced the index by 0.03 points, Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance division dropped by 0.11%, and Communication division dropped by 0.03%.<\/p>\n<p>While prices of: Foods and Beverages division increased by 0.90%, which pushed the index by 0.12 points, Transport division increased by 0.20%, which pushed the index by 0.02 points, and Miscellaneous Goods and Services division increased by 0.32%, which pushed the index by 0.02 points.<br \/>\nWhereas prices of: Tobacco division, Clothing and Footwear division, Health division, Education division, and Restaurants and Hotels division shows stability during the period of comparison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report issued by Dubai Statistics Center (DSC) states that the annual general index of consumer prices dropped by 2.80% in May 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, due to a decrease in the prices of: Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels division dropped by 8.42%, which reduced the index by 3.40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59947,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59945\/revisions\/59947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}