Istat: prices have risen by 63 per cent over 25 years, but house prices have risen by over 100 per cent

The overall rise in the Consumer Price Index between 2000 and 2025 was 63 per cent, but this figure reflects increases of over 100 per cent for the ‘housing and utilities’ category (driven by expenditure on electricity and fuels), for alcohol and tobacco, and for financial and insurance services, and increases of less than 30 per cent for education and healthcare services, alongside a fall of nearly 60 per cent in the cost of information and communication goods and services.

This is stated by Istat in its ‘Stories of Data’ report on consumer prices. For non-energy industrial goods as a whole, the increase in prices between 2000 and 2025 was just over 25 per cent.