REUTERS
In January, consumer prices rose by 0.2% against December 2019.
Consumer inflation in Ukraine in January 2020 amounted to 3.2% year-on-year, slowing down from 4.1% in December, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
Compared with the previous month, consumer prices in January were up 0.2%.
The agency says the largest price increase in annual terms was recorded for fruit and education services – at 13.5% each, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products – at 12.6%, railway passenger transport – at 11.3%, and water supply – at 11.1 %
The largest price drops were recorded for natural gas (21.1%), eggs (15.5%), vegetables (9.4%), fuel and oil (6.1%), clothes, and shoes (3.3%).
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The State Statistics Service recalls that the data are provided without taking into account the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, and the occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
As UNIAN reported earlier, inflation in Ukraine in 2019 slowed to 4.1% and hit its lowest over the past six years.
In January, the National Bank of Ukraine lowered its forecast for consumer price growth in Ukraine in 2020 to 4.8% from 5% previously projected.
The state budget of Ukraine for 2020 is based on the government's macroeconomic forecast with an inflation rate of 5.5%.