{"id":250893,"date":"2023-05-04T19:28:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2023\/05\/04\/250893\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T19:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:28:28","slug":"armenias-12-month-inflation-in-april-2023-was-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2023\/05\/04\/250893\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s 12-month inflation in April 2023 was 3.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 4. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The 12-month consumer inflation in Armenia in April 2023 was 3.2%, according to the National Statistical Committee (NSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said compared to March 2023, prices in April 2023 were down 0.1%. In January-April 2023 prices were&nbsp;up&nbsp;6.2% against the same period of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alcohol and tobacco products in April 2023 were up 7.9% from April 2022, while prices for clothing and footwear were up 6.6%. Utilities grew by 3%,&nbsp;while household goods and appliances rose&nbsp;in price by&nbsp;9.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices of health services rose 4.7%, transportation prices did not change, while communications prices upped 0.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also,&nbsp;recreation prices grew by 9.3%, education services upped by 4.7% and restaurants visits and hotel accommodation prices grew by 7.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, according to statistical data, prices of &nbsp;non-food products in April 2023 were up &nbsp;2.7% compared to 2022 April. Services prices grew by 5.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenian government&#8217;s growth projection for 2023 is 7%, while inflation is set at 4% (\u00b11.5%). According to the National Statistical Committee, Armenia&#8217;s economic activity saw a 12.2% growth in the first quarter of 2023 compared to January-March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank predicted in March 2023 5.8% growth for this year, saying also that the 12-month inflation would gradually slow down and stabilize around the 4% target starting from the second half of 2023. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN, May 4. \/ARKA\/. The 12-month consumer inflation in Armenia in April 2023 was 3.2%, according to the National Statistical Committee (NSC).<\/p>\n<p>It said compared to March 2023, prices in April 2023 were down 0.1%. In January-April 2023 prices were up 6.2% against the same period of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol and tobacco products in April 2023 were up 7.9% from April 2022, while prices for clothing and footwear were up 6.6%. Utilities grew by 3%, while household goods and appliances rose in price by 9.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Prices of health services rose 4.7%, transportation prices did not change, while communications prices upped 0.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Also, recreation prices grew by 9.3%, education services upped by 4.7% and restaurants visits and hotel accommodation prices grew by 7.9%.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, according to statistical data, prices of  non-food products in April 2023 were up  2.7% compared to 2022 April. Services prices grew by 5.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian government&#8217;s growth projection for 2023 is 7%, while inflation is set at 4% (\u00b11.5%). According to the National Statistical Committee, Armenia&#8217;s economic activity saw a 12.2% growth in the first quarter of 2023 compared to January-March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank predicted in March 2023 5.8% growth for this year, saying also that the 12-month inflation would gradually slow down and stabilize around the 4% target starting from the second half of 2023. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250893","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=250893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}