Food prices have risen by 45% since COVID.

Food prices have been one of the main drivers of inflation in the OECD since COVID, with a cumulative increase of 45.8% from December 2019 to last August, which has exceeded 790% in Turkey and has been around 80% in Colombia and Hungary. In a statement published on October 6, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) notes that the behavior has been very different among its member states, as while food prices have skyrocketed especially in these three countries, over the more than six and a half years since the start of the pandemic, they have only risen by 6.9% in Switzerland. The countries with sharp increases in food prices have also been those that have had the largest global inflation increases between December 2019 and August 2025, especially the case of Turkey, where prices have skyrocketed by 640.5%. After Turkey, those that have had the highest levels of inflation in that period have been Hungary (56.5%), Estonia (50%), Poland (47.5%), Colombia ...