2024-03-19 20:10:16
CTK
Updated 8 hours ago
Over the past ten years, the prices of vegetables and baked goods have risen most significantly in the Czech Republic. The price of onions doubled from January 2014 to the first calendar month of January this year, and the price of cabbage went up even more significantly. On the contrary, the price of long-life milk or sugar fell. This results from a comparison of the average prices of more than three dozen foods on the website of the Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ).
The prices of individual products fluctuated over a ten-year period. For example, the prices of baked goods increased sharply between 2010 and 2011 and then in the period from 2021 to 2022. Otherwise, according to statistics, they remained at a fairly stable level, the CZSO reports in the March issue of the magazine Statistika&My. In contrast, the prices of fruits and vegetables fluctuate greatly depending on the season.
The average price of most monitored food types reached their maximum level last year or the year before last. While in 2021 inflation in the food and non-alcoholic beverages section was 0.8 percent, a year later it accelerated to 16.7 percent and last year, according to data from the CZSO, it was 11.5 percent.
When comparing the average prices in January this year with the values from the beginning of 2014, it follows that the price of head cabbage rose the most. This January, customers paid an average of 26 crowns per kilogram, 136 percent more than ten years ago. The price of onions almost doubled in the same period, from 14.60 crowns per kilogram to 29 crowns. The price of tomatoes rose by almost three quarters in ten years, the average price of carrots rose by 58 percent and cauliflower by roughly 52 percent. For example, the price of bananas rose by only 7.5 percent in the same period, lemons by 15 percent.
Milk and sugar cheaper
Bakery products also belong to the foods whose price has risen most significantly in a ten-year comparison. At the beginning of this year, shoppers paid almost 43 crowns for a kilogram of consumer cumin bread, roughly 20 crowns more than in January 2014. The price of a kilogram of white wheat bread rose from 40.70 crowns to more than 64 crowns.
On the contrary, shelf-life milk shows the most significant decrease among the monitored foods. In January 2014, a liter cost an average of 20 crowns, this year it was a quarter less in the same month. The price of granulated sugar fell significantly less, by less than six percent. Cooked chickens and fine vodka were also sold cheaper than ten years ago.
Comparison of average prices of selected foods between January 2014 and January 2024 (ordered in descending order by percentage difference):
| food | members 2024 | members 2014 | difference in percent |
| white cabbage 1 kg | 26 | 11 | 136,4 |
| dry onion 1 kg | 29 | 14,6 | 98,6 |
| Caraway bread 1kg | 42,9 | 23,1 | 85,7 |
| red round tomatoes 1 kg | 87,1 | 50,6 | 72,1 |
| carrot 1 kg | 26 | 16,5 | 57,6 |
| white wheat pastry 1kg | 64,1 | 40,7 | 57,5 |
| white cauliflower 1kg | 68,2 | 44,7 | 52,6 |
| egg pasta 1kg | 64 | 42,8 | 49,5 |
| fresh chicken eggs 10 pcs | 40,3 | 30,2 | 33,4 |
| rendered pork lard 1 kg | 89,5 | 67,6 | 32,4 |
| oranges 1 kg | 34,8 | 26,4 | 31,8 |
| pork ham 1kg | 253,9 | 193 | 31,6 |
| boneless back beef 1kg | 262,7 | 207,9 | 26,4 |
| consumer potatoes 1kg | 22 | 17,6 | 25,0 |
| plain wheat flour 1kg | 16 | 13,4 | 19,4 |
| light beer, draft, bottle 0.5l | 12,8 | 10,8 | 18,5 |
| salad cucumbers 1kg | 58,2 | 49,2 | 18,3 |
| lemons 1 kg | 42,1 | 36,6 | 15,0 |
| domestic rum 1l | 285,6 | 252,2 | 13,2 |
| white low-fat yogurt 150g | 9,8 | 8,7 | 12,6 |
| boneless pork leg 1kg | 140,1 | 125,4 | 11,7 |
| peppers 1kg | 78,8 | 70,6 | 11,6 |
| Eida brick 1kg | 182,8 | 164,4 | 11,2 |
| bee honey 1kg | 174,5 | 157,2 | 11,0 |
| semi-fat pasteurized milk 1l | 21,4 | 19,9 | 7,5 |
| bananas yellow 1kg | 34,4 | 32 | 7,5 |
| butter 1 kg | 175,3 | 164,7 | 6,4 |
| eating apples 1 kg | 33,4 | 31,5 | 6,0 |
| jemna vodka 1l | 282,1 | 291,2 | -3,1 |
| whole cooked chickens 1 kg | 67,6 | 70,8 | -4,5 |
| crystal Sugar | 22,9 | 24,3 | -5,8 |
| long-life milk 1l | 15,1 | 20 | -24,5 |
Source: CZSO