For the full year the annual inflation rate stood at 2.6%.
Food prices grew 3.24% in December compared with December 2019, prices of non-food items were 1% higher, and service prices grew 2.7%.
Compared with November, food prices were 0.3% higher in December, prices of non-food items were 0.5% higher, and service prices were virtually unchanged.
In 2020 compared with 2019, food prices grew 4.4%, prices of non-food items grew 1%, and service prices grew 3.1%, the data showed.