Serbia’s consumer prices rose by 10.2% year-on-year in September, after increasing by an annual 11.5% the month before, the State Statistical Office said on Thursday.
On a monthly comparison basis, Serbia’s consumer price index (CPI) went up by 0.3% in September, after rising by 0.4% in August, the statistical office said in a monthly inflation report.
The biggest price increases in annual terms were observed in the sector of restaurant and hotel services, by 20.4%, followed by food and non-alcoholic beverages, up 18.9%, housing, water and energy, up 18.3%, and household equipment and maintenance, up 17.9%.
Compared to last year, electricity for households rose in price by 14.8 percent and gas by 19.9 percent.
On a monthly comparison basis, prices of transport increased by 1.8% in September. Prices of restaurant and hotel services rose 0.9% and prices of and healthcare and household equipment and maintenance went up by 0.5%.
(Biznis i Finansije, 13.10.2023)
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