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Iran’s inflation rate hits15.4%-CBI

Business Materials 27 August 2015 17:34 (UTC +04:00)
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced that the inflation rate in the urban area for the 12-month period to the fifth Iranian calendar month of Mordad (ended on Aug. 22) hit 15.4 percent, 0.2 percent less compared to preceding month
Iran’s inflation rate hits15.4%-CBI

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 26

By Umid Niayesh - Trend:

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced that the inflation rate in the urban area for the 12-month period to the fifth Iranian calendar month of Mordad (ended on Aug. 22) hit 15.4 percent, 0.2 percent less compared to preceding month.

However, the Statistical Center of Iran has put the inflation rate for the 12-month period to Mordad 13.8 percent, 0.3 percent less than the previous month.

The country's point-to-point inflation in the mentioned month was 12.6 percent, the CBI said August 26.

The point-to-point inflation rate statistics identify the rate between distinct points in time, such as the inflation rate at the end of a month compared to the rate of inflation at the end of the same month in the previous year.

The Central Bank also said that the consumer price index (CPI) in Iran's urban areas stood at 224.4 units in the fifth month of the current fiscal year, which is 0.1 percent less than its preceding month.

Meanwhile the Statistical Center of Iran put the figure at 215, which comes with a growth of 0.5 percent compared to the preceding month.

The index for foods and drinks shows a fall by 2.7 percent compared to the preceding month and a growth of 12 percent when compared to the same time last year, according to the CBI.

The inflation rate in Iran in 2005 was about 10.4 percent, but in mid-2013, when Iranian president Hassan Rouhani came to power, the inflation rate and point-to-point inflation rate were 37.5 percent and 44 percent, respectively.

Rouhani has promised to decrease the inflation rate to five percent in the Iranian fiscal year of 1395 (to end on March 20, 2017).

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