{"id":249863,"date":"2021-06-09T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2021\/06\/09\/249863\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:58:29","slug":"armenias-12-month-inflation-in-may-2021-amount-to-5-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2021\/06\/09\/249863\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s 12-month inflation in May 2021 amount to 5.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 9. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia&#8217;s consumer prices were 5.9% up in May 2021 compared to May 2020, and 0.4% down compared to April 2021, according to the numbers, released today by the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0National Statistical Committee (NSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said compared to the January-May 2020, prices in the first five months of 2021 grew by 5.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the NSC, in May 2021, compared to May 2019, prices for food products and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 7.5%, and dropped by 1% from April 2021.Alcohol and tobacco products rose in prices by 8.7% in May 2021, and by 1% from April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices for clothes and shoes in May 2021 increased by 5.9% from May 2020 and by 0.2% from April 2021. Utilities grew by 0.9% and dropped by 0.7% respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Household goods and appliances rose in price by 9.3% in May, and by 0.2% from April 2021. Healthcare prices rose by 6.2% from May 2020 and declined by 0.2% from April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices for communications services grew by 1.1%&nbsp;&nbsp;and 0.1% respectively. Education fees grew by&nbsp;&nbsp;2.1% and 0% respectively and restaurant and hotel prices upped&nbsp;&nbsp;4.5% and 1.1% respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, prices for non-food products in May 2021 compared to May last year increased by 9%. Services rose by 2.2% and dropped by 0.2% respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government&#8217;s growth projection for 2021 is 3,2%. Inflation forecast is&nbsp;&nbsp;4% (\u00b11,5%). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s consumer prices were 5.9% up in May 2021 compared to May 2020, and 0.4% down compared to April 2021, according to the numbers, released today by the   National Statistical Committee (NSC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12225,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-249863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-inflation","11":"tag-336"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249863","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=249863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}