{"id":158233,"date":"2024-11-13T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2024\/11\/13\/255480\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:17:26","slug":"armenia-may-rank-2nd-for-lowest-inflation-in-2024-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2024\/11\/13\/158233\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia may rank 2nd for lowest inflation in 2024 \u2013 IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, November 13. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia may rank second in the world for the lowest inflation in 2024, according to an IMF study covering 236 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the top five countries with the lowest inflation are Costa Rica (-0.3%), Armenia (0.2%), China (0.4%), Brunei Darussalam (0.5%), and Thailand (0.5%). Other countries expected to have low inflation this year include Cambodia (0.7%), Lithuania (0.9%), El Salvador (1%), Qatar (1%), Macau SAR (1.1%), Georgia (1.1%), and the Bahamas (1.1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top five countries with the highest inflation are Zimbabwe (635.3%), Argentina (229.8%), Sudan (200.1%), South Sudan (120.6%), and Turkey (60.9%). Other countries with high inflation include Venezuela (59.6%), Sierra Leone (36.6%), Egypt (33.3%), Nigeria (32.5%), Iran (31.7%), and Malawi (30.6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Armenia&#8217;s state budget for 2024, inflation is projected at 4% (\u00b11.5%). According to the latest data from the National Statistical Committee, inflation in Armenia&#8217;s consumer market in September this year compared to September last year was 0.6%. The Central Bank&#8217;s third-quarter monetary policy report forecasts inflation in Armenia to range between 2.1% and 2% by the end of 2024. The inflation forecast for 2025 is 4% to 3.2%, for 2026 \u2013 4.2% to 3.8%, and for 2027 \u2013 4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank expects inflation in Armenia to reach 3% in 2024, 3.5% in 2025, and 4% in 2026. The IMF forecasts a 0.2% increase in prices in 2024, followed by a 3.1% rise in 2025. According to ADB projections, inflation in Armenia will be 0.8% in 2024 and will accelerate to 2.5% in 2025. The EDB anticipates inflation in Armenia to reach 1.5% by the end of this year. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN, November 13. \/ARKA\/. Armenia may rank second in the world for the lowest inflation in 2024, according to an IMF study covering 236 countries.<br \/>\nThus, the top five countries with the lowest inflation are Costa Rica (-0.3%), Armenia (0.2%), China (0.4%), Brunei Darussalam (0.5%), and Thailand (0.5%). Other countries expected to have low inflation this year include Cambodia (0.7%), Lithuania (0.9%), El Salvador (1%), Qatar (1%), Macau SAR (1.1%), Georgia (1.1%), and the Bahamas (1.1%).<br \/>\nThe top five countries with the highest inflation are Zimbabwe (635.3%), Argentina (229.8%), Sudan (200.1%), South Sudan (120.6%), and Turkey (60.9%). Other countries with high inflation include Venezuela (59.6%), Sierra Leone (36.6%), Egypt (33.3%), Nigeria (32.5%), Iran (31.7%), and Malawi (30.6%).<br \/>\nIn Armenia&#8217;s state budget for 2024, inflation is projected at 4% (\u00b11.5%). According to the latest data from the National Statistical Committee, inflation in Armenia&#8217;s consumer market in September this year compared to September last year was 0.6%. The Central Bank&#8217;s third-quarter monetary policy report forecasts inflation in Armenia to range between 2.1% and 2% by the end of 2024. The inflation forecast for 2025 is 4% to 3.2%, for 2026 \u2013 4.2% to 3.8%, and for 2027 \u2013 4%.<br \/>\nThe World Bank expects inflation in Armenia to reach 3% in 2024, 3.5% in 2025, and 4% in 2026. The IMF forecasts a 0.2% increase in prices in 2024, followed by a 3.1% rise in 2025. According to ADB projections, inflation in Armenia will be 0.8% in 2024 and will accelerate to 2.5% in 2025. The EDB anticipates inflation in Armenia to reach 1.5% by the end of this year. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}