CPI COICOP is defined as a measure of average change of retail prices of goods and services used for personal consumption.

Prices of these products and services in May 2018 in relation to April 2018 increased by 0.6% on average. Consumer prices in May 2018 increased, compared with the same month of the previous year, by 2.1%, while in relation to December 2017, the increase of 1.8% was recorded.      

Observed by main groups according to destination of consumption in May 2018 in relation to the previous month, the increase of prices was noted in the following groups: Transport (1.4%), Food and non-alcoholic beverages (1.2%), Health and Restaurants and hotels (by 0,5% each group)  Clothing and footwear (0.3%), and Recreation and culture (by 0.2%, each group). Decrease of prices was recorded in the group Communication (by -0,5%).

Prices of other products and services mostly remained unchanged.

Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not  provide available certain data relative to AP Kosovo and Metohija and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total).