Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 26
By Fatih Karimov- Trend:
The Central Bank of Iran announced that the inflation rate in the urban area for the 12-month period to the ninth Iranian calendar month of Azar (ended on Dec. 22) hit 13.7 percent, 0.6 percent less compared to preceding month.
However, the Statistical Center of Iran has put the inflation rate for the 12-month period to Azar 12.6 percent, 0.5 percent less than the previous month.
The country's point-to-point inflation in the mentioned month was 9.4 percent, 0.8 percent less than the previous month, the CBI said Dec. 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 231.6 units in the ninth month of the current fiscal year, which is 1.3 percent more than its preceding month.
The index for foods and drinks shows a rise by 2.2 percent compared to the preceding month and a growth rate of 5.3 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).