{"id":263303,"date":"2025-04-23T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=263303"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:32:29","slug":"armenia-enters-top-10-countries-in-the-world-with-lowest-inflation-in-2024-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/04\/23\/263303\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia Enters Top 10 Countries in the World with Lowest Inflation in 2024 \u2013 IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 23. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenia was among the top 10 countries in the world with the lowest annual inflation in 2024. Such data is provided in an IMF study on 156 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, deflation of 0.4% was recorded in Costa Rica and Saint Lucia. Inflation was 0.2% in China, Jordan, and the Seychelles, 0.3% in Armenia, 0.4% in the Bahamas and Thailand, and 0.5% in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the countries that also recorded low inflation last year were Oman, Papua New Guinea (0.6% each), Macau (0.7%), Panama, Senegal (0.8% each), Bahrain, Cambodia, Lithuania, and Morocco (0.9% each). The top 5 countries with the highest inflation are: Zimbabwe (736.1%), Argentina (219.9%), Sudan (176%), South Sudan (128.4%) and Turkey (58.5%). Countries with high inflation include the West Bank and Gaza Strip (52.9%), Venezuela (49%), Lebanon (45.2%), Yemen (33.9%), and Egypt (33.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the state budget of Armenia for 2024, inflation was set at 4% (\u00b11.5%). According to Armstat, 12-month inflation (December 2024 compared to December 2023) was 1.5%, and in January-December 2024, compared to the same period in 2023, prices increased by 0.3%. The World Bank expected inflation in Armenia to be 3% in 2024, the IMF predicted that prices in Armenia would grow by 3.1% in 2024, the ADB&#8217;s inflation forecast for last year was 0.8%, and the EDB expected inflation in Armenia to be 1.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia was among the top 10 countries in the world with the lowest annual inflation in 2024. Such data is provided in an IMF study on 156 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":161776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[12688,15626],"class_list":{"0":"post-263303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation","10":"tag-15626"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263303","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}