The chart above indicates the food inflation rates in Trinidad and Tobago from 1998 to 2008. These data reveal that the mean inflation rate during the period under examination was 15.6%, the lowest such rate was recorded in 2000 at 8.3%, which was 7.3 percentage points lower than the mean.
The highest inflation rate seen during this period was 25.9% in 2008; this represented 10.3 percentages points in excess of the mean inflation rate for the period 1998 to 2008.
