Food prices in the OECD have risen by 45.8% since the COVID crisis.

Food prices have been one of the main drivers of inflation in the OECD since the COVID crisis, with a cumulative increase of 45.8% from December 2019 to last August, exceeding 790% in Turkey and around 80% in Colombia and Hungary. In a statement released this Monday, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) points out 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 beginning of the pandemic, they have only risen by 6.9% in Switzerland. The countries with sharp increases in food prices have also been those with the largest global inflation increases between December 2019 and August 2025, especially the case of Turkey, where prices have skyrocketed by 640.5%. Following Turkey, those with the highest inflation levels in that period have been Hungary (56.5%), Estonia (50%), Poland (47.5%), Colombia (45.5%), Lithuania ...