{"id":59993,"date":"2021-01-18T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=59993"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:41:07","slug":"dubais-annual-price-index-drops-by-4-32-in-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubais-annual-price-index-drops-by-4-32-in-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai&#8217;s Annual Price Index Drops by 4.32% in December 2020"},"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 4.32% in December 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, as the prices of the following sectors were dropped: Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Fuel dropped by 8.33%, which reduced index by 3.40 points, Transportation dropped by 6.98%, which reduced index by 0.87 points, Entertainment and Culture dropped by 13.79%, which reduced index by 0.29 points, Clothing and Footwear dropped by 2.28%, which reduced index by 0.05 points and Communications dropped by 0.01%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, price index of the following sectors was increased: Foods and Beverages increased 0.48%, which boosted index by 0.06 points, Education increased 0.55%, which boosted index by 0.05 points, Miscellaneous Goods and Services increased 0.66%, which boosted index by 0.04 points, Restaurants and Hotels increased 0.71%, which boosted index by 0.03 points, Tobacco increased 0.13%, Furniture, Furnishings and Household Appliances and Maintenance increased 0.12%, and Health Sector increased 0.08%.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer Price Index Dropped by 0.38% in December 2020<\/p>\n<p>General monthly index of consumer prices dropped by 0.38% in December 2020 compared to November 2020 as a result of price drop of the following sectors: Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Fuel dropped by 1.39%, which reduced index by 0.55 points, Foods and Beverages dropped by 0.37%, which reduced index by 0.0 points, Entertainment and Culture dropped by 0.24%.<\/p>\n<p>While prices of the following sectors were increased: Transportation increased 1.65%, which boosted index by 0.17 points, Miscellaneous Goods and Services increased 0.70%, which boosted index by 0.04 points, Restaurants and Hotels increased 0.06%, Furniture, Furnishings and Household Appliances and Maintenance increased 0.03%, and Communications increased 0.03%.<\/p>\n<p>Where as prices of the sectors of Tobacco, Clothing and Footwear, Health, and Education remained at their previous portions 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 4.32% in December 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, as the prices of the following sectors were dropped: Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Fuel dropped by 8.33%, which reduced index by 3.40 points, Transportation [&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-59993","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\/59993","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=59993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59994,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59993\/revisions\/59994"}],"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=59993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}