What is happening to prices?
Official Philippine data, explained step by step: what happened, why, and whether it affects you.
Prices continued to rise, and the pace of increase became faster in September.
Why did inflation accelerate?
Food, housing-related costs and transportation all rose faster. These three groups made up most of the 7.2%.
What is happening to food prices?
Inflation is uneven. Rice and corn rose sharply, while meat and dairy prices actually fell compared with a year ago.
- Rice20.3%
- Corn17.3%
- Vegetables, tubers & pulses10.7%
- Fruits & nuts8.7%
- Fish & seafood7.4%
- Oils & fats6.4%
- Milk, dairy & eggs-0.8%
- Meat-2.7%
What could inflation mean for your household?
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A comparable basket costing ₱25,000 a year ago might cost about ₱1,892 more today, based on national rates (≈8.4% on covered spending).
Location: Philippines. Official national headline: 7.2%. Category rates shown are national.
This is an illustrative estimate based on selected official inflation rates and the spending amounts you entered. Your actual household experience may differ.
What's driving your estimate?
- Food₱680
- Transportation₱438
- Housing₱420
- Utilities₱210
- Other₱144
Your estimate is influenced most by the categories where you spend the most and where official price changes are higher.
Want to understand what's driving these changes?
Food is one of the larger contributors to your estimate. See what's happening with food prices →
What is happening where I live?
Official data is not currently available for this location and indicator.
What are things actually costing?
Actual prices come from different sources (DA market monitoring, DTI suggested retail prices, DOE fuel prices). A suggested retail price is not the same as an observed market price, so we label each one separately.
DA and DOE figures above are Metro Manila (NCR) prices, not prices for your own area.
Prices shown come from official government sources and may represent different types of published price information. Check the original source for the full details. DA · DTI · DOE
What should I watch next?
- Rice prices — up 20.3% year on year.
- Transport costs — up 14.6% year on year.
- Monthly momentum — seasonally adjusted prices changed 1.1% in September 2026 vs 0.5% the month before.
This is only the beginning.
Prices are one signal of what is happening around us. HyLoQ is being built to connect economic, resource, and civic signals so people can understand what is changing, why it matters, and what they can do next.