Home utility prices in Valledupar they had one of the highest increases in the country. Electricity, according to the National Administrative Department of Statistics, increased by more than 30.53% in the last 12 months, that is, between March 2022 and the same month in 2023.
This percentage is only after those registered in Montería (30, 94 %) and Sincelejo (30,67 %), the two capitals where this category of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) presented the greatest variations, according to the most recent study of the entity.
Throughout the national territory the increase was 19,77 %which indicates that the capital of the department of Cesar is more than 10 percentage points above the indicator generatesl.
MONTHLY INCREASE
Only last March, the service provided by the company Affinia varied by 1.78% in the Upar Valley, according to DANE. But it was the Guajira capital, Riohacha, which had the highest monthly inflation in the country with 2.45%. Both territories exceed 1.66% that varied throughout the country.
ALSO THE GAS RECEIPT
Another of the services that would be worrying the vallenatos is natural gas, due to the increase in the rate in the last year: it varied by 34.62%. This percentage placed the World Capital of Vallenato in third place among 23 geographic domains. The national average for that period was 27.39 percent.
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