Monthly average retail prices for selected food products, for Canada and provinces. Prices are presented for the current month and the previous four months. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.

From January 2022 to January 2025, the consumer price index (CPI) of food purchased from the store generally increased monthly in every province. In Prince Edward Island, the CPI reached 204.1 by January 2025, making it the highest CPI in Canada in that month.

The consumer price index of food in Canada has generally increased since 2000. The base year 2002 equals 100 and after that year, the price index stayed over 100 and increased each year until ultimately reaching a high of 190.5 in July 2024. Since then, the index has slightly decreased but reached 190.5 again in October 2024.

Monthly indexes and percentage changes for selected sub-groups of the food component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), not seasonally adjusted, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Data are presented for the corresponding month of the previous year, the previous month and the current month. The base year for the index is 2002=100.

When asked what changes they had seen in consumer behavior as of 2024 when buying produce, almost half of the retailers across Canada reported that more consumers were purchasing discounted items or items with a promotion. About 46 percent said that consumers were purchasing less expensive produce.

Food Prices for Canada.

Contains data from the FAOSTAT bulk data service covering the following categories: Consumer Price Indices, Deflators, Exchange rates, Producer Prices

When surveyed in November 2024, some 67 percent of respondents in Canada stated that they expected grocery prices to increase. This figure has increased since the start of the survey period in September 2021 and first peaked at 80 percent in May 2022.

This table contains 288 series, with data for years 1956 - 1990 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2000-02-18. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (6 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Ontario; Quebec ...), Commodities (278 items: Canola oil cake and meal; domestic; Meat products; Primary meat products; Meat; fish and dairy products ...).

In 2024, the annual growth in food prices in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada reached approximately 3.8 percent. Newfoundland and Labrador had the highest inflation rate among all provinces. British Columbia had a food inflation rate of 2.8 percent.

Provides daily ranges of domestic and imported horticultural commodities offered for sale. All quoted prices are supplied by a select surveyed group of wholesalers operating in that specific market. The price quoted represent the wholesalers 'asking price' to the retail level for a commodity and does not represent any arrangements or deals. The information provides for commodities, varieties, origins, pack weight or count and price range.

In August 2024, the average canned food import price amounted to $4,141 per ton, jumping by 22% against the previous month.

This file contains data from a weekly national price survey conducted in six Canadian cities: St. John’s, Charlottetown, Saint John, Regina, Yellowknife and Moncton. The data pertain to average retail prices for food products and cover the period January 1974 to December 1975. These datasets have been converted from their legacy file structures and encoding schemes so they can be used by contemporary computers that are based upon the ASCII character-encoding scheme. Each dataset will require specialized software such as a statistical tool, to interpret and analyze the content in each file. The attached codebook describes the file’s structure and defines the variables contained in each field. Each code book is a compilation of the summary description of the dataset as provided by the creating department. As such, it is available in English only.

In Canada, consumers have seen almost all food prices in the grocery store increase in April 2022, compared to the prices in April 2021. The cost of pasta went up the most, increasing by about 19.6 percent. The prices of fresh fruits and vegetables went up by ten percent and 8.2 percent, respectively.

Graph and download economic data for Producer Prices Index: Economic Activities: Manufacture of Food Products: Total for Canada (CANPIEAFD01GYM) from Jan 1960 to Dec 2022 about Canada, production, manufacturing, PPI, price index, indexes, and price.

Canada Consumer Price Index (CPI): Food: PS: BC: CP: Rice data was reported at 181.100 2002=100 in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 181.600 2002=100 for Feb 2025. Canada Consumer Price Index (CPI): Food: PS: BC: CP: Rice data is updated monthly, averaging 101.500 2002=100 from Sep 1978 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 559 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 189.100 2002=100 in Dec 2024 and a record low of 37.800 2002=100 in Oct 1978. Canada Consumer Price Index (CPI): Food: PS: BC: CP: Rice data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Canada. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Canada – Table CA.I002: Consumer Price Index: 2002=100.

This table contains 214 series, with data for years 1961 - 2011 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2012-10-01. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Prices (4 items: Current prices; 1992 constant prices (terminated); Chained (2002) dollars; Contributions to percent change ...), Consumer goods and services (61 items: Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services; Food and non-alcoholic beverages; Alcoholic beverages bought in stores; Food; beverages and tobacco ...).

This dashboard provides graphs with Consumer Price Index (CPI) information for food categories in Manitoba and other provincial jurisdictions in Canada. This dashboard provides graphs with Consumer Price Index (CPI) information for food categories in Manitoba, and other provincial jurisdictions in Canada. Food prices are increasing at a pace not seen before in the last 20 years. Requests for information have been received by Manitoba Agriculture from the general public. This dashboard focuses strictly on food and food categories, showing price changes through time, starting in 2002 until the present. The food categories shown in the dashboard, either in a graph or in the selection option, are: Meat Fish, seafood and other marine products Dairy products Eggs Bakery and cereal products Fruit, fruit preparations and nuts Vegetables and vegetable preparations Other food products and non-alcoholic beverages All Foods The dashboard contains three tabs: Manitoba: This chart provides a graph with the option of plotting the food CPI for All Foods (average of all food categories), or for a specific food category for Manitoba. The chart can be filtered to show year-to-date data, or data for the last one, five, 10, or all years going back to 2002. By Food Category: This chart provides a bar graph with the CPI of all the food categories for Manitoba. Information is available for the past 12 months of available data, so the chart shows one-year variation. By Province: This chart provides a bar graph with the CPI for all the provinces, and Canada. Each province is represented by one bar in the graph. The user can select the food category of interest or All Foods (average of all categories). Information is available for the past 12 months of available data, so the chart shows one-year variation. The data table used for this dashboard is the Consumer Price Index Food Product Statistics table. The source of the information is the Statistics Canada Table 18-10-0004-01 Consumer Price Index, monthly, not seasonally adjusted. Data are updated monthly by Manitoba Agriculture from Statistics Canada sources.

The Consumer Price Index measures changes in the cost of selected food items over time like: * food purchased from stores * fresh or frozen beef * fresh or frozen pork * fresh or frozen chicken * dairy products and eggs * bakery products * fresh fruit * fresh vegetables * food purchased from restaurants

Monthly average retail prices for food, household supplies, personal care items, cigarettes and gasoline. Prices are presented for the current month and previous four months. Prices are in Canadian current dollars.

This index represents the consumer price index for food in Canada, excluding the effect of indirect taxes. The index does include non-alcoholic beverages. The index has a base year of 2002 and is sourced from Statistics Canada.