Today, the Ministry of Economy and Labour released the Department of Statistics’ October 2025 Consumer Price Index (attached).
In summary, consumers paid 2.5 per cent more in October 2025 than they did a year ago for the basket of goods and services included in the Consumer Price Index [CPI]. This level of inflation increased 0.3 percentage points from the September 2025 annual inflation rate. Some highlights for October 2024 to October 2025 include:
- The Health & Personal Care division increased 4.3 per cent.
- The Transport & Foreign Travel division rose 3.9 per cent.
- The Rent division increased 1.9 per cent.
- The Food division increased 3.0 per cent.
- The Education, Recreation, Entertainment & Reading division advanced 2.5 per cent.
Between September 2025 and October 2025, the average cost of goods and services increased 0.3 per cent. Additional areas of note between September 2025 and October 2025 were as follows:
- The Transport & Foreign Travel division increased 1.8 per cent.
- The Health & Personal division increased 0.6 per cent.
- The Food division rose 0.4 per cent.
- The Household Goods, Services & Supplies division increased 0.2 per cent.
*Note: The Government measures the annual and monthly inflation rates. Annual changes are from the same month last year, and monthly changes are from month to month. The October 2025 Consumer Price Index is available online at https://www.gov.bm/consumer-price-index.