CPI COICOP is defined as a measure of average change of retail prices of goods and services used for personal consumption.

Prices of these products and services in November 2018 in relation to October 2018 decreased by 0.3% on average. Consumer prices in November 2018 increased, compared with the same month of the previous year, by 1.9%, and the same percentage of prices’ increase was recorded in comparison with December 2017 (1.9%).      

Observed by main groups according to destination of consumption in November 2018 in relation to the previous month, the decrease of prices was noted in the following groups: Food and non-alcoholic beverages (-1.0%), in the groups Transport and Communication (by -0.2%, each group), and in the groups Alcoholic beverages and tobacco and Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance (by -0.1%, each group). Increase of prices was recorded in the groups Clothing and footwear (0.5%) and Health (0.2%).

Prices of other products and services mostly remained unchanged.

Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not  provide available certain data relative to AP Kosovo and Metohija and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).