Paris (EFE).- Spain was in February the country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in which energy prices had fallen the most in twelve months, 8.9%, which contrasts with the increase overall of 11.9% in the group of the 37 members.
Between February 2022 and the same month of this year, according to data published this Tuesday by the OECD, energy prices also fell in Belgium (7.9%), Costa Rica (5.6%), Greece (5 .2%), Luxembourg (2%), the Netherlands (1.1%), Japan (0.7%) and Canada (0.6%).
At the opposite extreme, energy in those twelve months became particularly expensive in the United Kingdom (48.3%), Latvia (46.4%) and Turkey (42.2%).
The inflation rate in February in the OECD remained at 8.8%, which means four tenths less than in January, and this above all thanks to the slowdown in energy prices (the interannual increase went from 16, 4% to 11.9%) and to a much lesser extent to food (from 15.2% to 14.9%).
The countries in which inflation fell the most in February were Costa Rica (down from 7.7% in January to 5.6%) and Turkey (from 57.7% to 55.2%).
Spain had the seventh lowest inflation of the members with 6%, and was one of the few in which that figure increased in February (it had been 5.9% in January) due to the acceleration in food (from 15.4% in January to 16.6%)).
Core inflation in Spain, at 5.2% in February, remained clearly below the OECD average (7.3%) and somewhat lower than that of the Eurozone (5.6%).
