In 2022, the consumer price index rose by 5.2% as an annual average, an increase unprecedented since the mid-1980s. Driven primarily by energy, inflation gradually spread to most other goods and services, with food becoming the main contributor from autumn onwards. Since mid-2022, the year-on-year variation in consumer prices has hovered around 6%: energy inflation has slipped back overall whereas food inflation has continued to rise as has, to a lesser extent, that of manufactured products.