The January 2026 inflation rate in Negros Island Region (NIR) slowed to 0.8 percent, from 1.8 percent in December 2025, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Monday, Jan. 9, showed.
This month’s regional inflation rate or the change in the average prices of goods and services in NIR is also lower than the 2.4 percent recorded in January 2025.
The country’s newest administrative region comprises the provinces of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental and Siquijor as well as the highly urbanized Bacolod City.
“NIR ranks third among the regions with the lowest inflation rate in January 2026,” PSA-NIR OIC-Regional Director John Campomanes said in a press conference.
The main source of deceleration was brought by the slower annual increase in the index of food and non-alcoholic beverages, posting a 0.3 percent inflation last month, from 1.0 percent in December 2025, with a 58.3 percent share of the inflation downtrend.
Significant contributors are vegetables, tubers and similar goods, from 20.5 percent in December 2025 to only 12.8 in January 2026, and fish and other seafood, from 9.8 percent in December 2025 to 6.6 percent in January 2026.
Other drivers are transport, from 0.8 percent in December 2025 to -0.5 percent in January 2026, with 23.2 percent share, as well as restaurants and accommodation services, from 1.3 percent in December 2025 to 0.7 percent in January 2026, with an 8.4 percent share.
Meanwhile, the major contributors to the January 2026 inflation are housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, with 0.16 percentage point contribution, registering an inflation rate of 0.9 percent.
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco contributed 0.12 percentage point, with an inflation rate of 4.0 percent.
With its 0.3 percent inflation rate, food and non-alcoholic percent contributed 0.12 percentage point to the January 2026 inflation rate.
Inflation rates also slowed down in Negros Occidental to 0.7 percent in January 2026, from 1.2 percent in December 2025, and also in Bacolod City, to 1.1 percent in January 2026, from 2.7 percent in December 2025.*
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