Fig. 1: Consumer price indexes for food and other items, January 2019–June 2021. | Nature Food

Fig. 1: Consumer price indexes for food and other items, January 2019–June 2021.

From: Retail prices of nutritious food rose more in countries with higher COVID-19 case counts

Fig. 1

Data shown refer to national CPI from 181 countries, CPI for food and non-alcoholic beverages (FCPI) and FPI ratio of food to overall price level from 179 countries since January 2019 (= 100) with missing data in Central African Republic and Guyana. a, The global mean (coloured dot) and 95% CI (coloured bar) in each month for those indexes, with the FAO world food commodity price index (orange dashed line) for comparison. February 2020 is shown as a black vertical dashed line. b, The global mean (coloured line) and its 95% CI (grey shading) at each level of reported cumulative monthly COVID-19 cases per million. The x axis of b is truncated at the far right to show 99% of the observations, although the regression line was estimated using all data, including the 1% of prices observed with COVID-19 rates that are off the charts to the right for each food group. The black dashed horizontal line shows the intercept of the regression model, representing the estimated prices indexes at the COVID-19 case number of zero.

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