Prices were down 0.1% in 2016 after they rose an annual 0.1%  in 2015, the lowest increase in decades, provisional Istat figures showed. 

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Excluding energy and unprocessed food prices, 'core' inflation was 0.5 % last year, against 0.7 % in 2015, the data showed.The data compares with an Istat forecast in November of of zero inflation in 2016 and 1.0 percent inflation in 2017. 

Despite deflation in 2016, prices picked up at the end of the year, with a 0.5 % annual rise in December following a 0.1 % increase in November year-on-year, Istat said.The higher-than-expected December inflation owed to price hikes in transport services, non-regulated energy products and unprocessed foods, according to Istat.