TABLE-Abu Dhabi December inflation drops to 0.8 percent

Jan 23 (Reuters) - The Abu Dhabi Statistics Centre released the following December consumer price data for the Gulf Arab emirate on Monday.

ABU DHABI CONSUMER INFLATION 12/16 11/16 12/15 pct change month/month -0.5 0.5 n/a pct change year/year 0.8 2.3 4.8 NOTE. Previous figures are revised.

For 2016 as a whole, the inflation rate was 2.0 percent. Food and beverage prices fell 0.1 percent while housing and utilities rose 5.6 percent, and transport fell 1.7 percent.

(Reporting by Andrew Torchia; editing by John Stonestreet)