South Cotabato’s inflation rate posted a slight increase to 3.90 percent in December 2017. This is about 0.4 percentage point higher than the rate posted a year ago of the same reference month (from 3.50 to 3.90 Inflation Rate).

The year-on-year price situation was up to 3.88 percent change in all item index due to the significant increase in the heavily-weighted food and non-alcoholic beverages with 5.78 percent change (from 169.5 to 179.3). The same is true for the Non-food index with 1.63 percent change (from 122.8 to 124.8). Of all items; food and non-alcoholic beverages with 5.78 percent change (from 169.5 to 179.3) posted the higher percentage