{"id":267957,"date":"2025-11-04T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=267957"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:37:34","slug":"armenias-inflation-increase-is-attributed-to-demand-according-to-chairman-of-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/11\/04\/267957\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s inflation increase is attributed to demand, according to Chairman of \u00a0Central Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YEREVAN, November 4. \/ARKA\/. The slight rise in inflation to 3.7% is mainly influenced by demand factors, as stated by Martin Galstyan, the head of the Central Bank of Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Typically, central banks do not respond to this. Our main focus is on managing inflation driven by demand. We are experiencing robust economic growth alongside low inflation,&#8221; Galstyan remarked during a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the Armstat report, the 12-month inflation rate in the Armenian consumer market was 3.7% in September of this year. Additionally, the National Statistics Committee reported that inflation in September rose by 0.3% compared to August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simultaneously, prices saw a 3.3% increase from January to September 2025 compared to the same timeframe in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state budget of Armenia for 2025 anticipates inflation at 3% (\u00b11%). The Central Bank&#8217;s monetary policy report for the third quarter of this year predicts that inflation in Armenia will be between 4.1% and 3.7% by the end of 2025, depending on different scenarios (A-B), with forecasts of 3.7% to 3.2% for 2026 and 3% for 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank projects that inflation in Armenia will be 3.5% in 2025 and 4% in 2026. The IMF estimates that prices will rise by 3.3% in 2025 and 3% in 2026. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) anticipates inflation to be 2.5% in 2025. The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) expects inflation to reach 3.1% by the end of this year.-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slight rise in inflation to 3.7% is mainly influenced by demand factors, as stated by Martin Galstyan, the head of the Central Bank of Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":206514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,12139,9216],"tags":[15837],"class_list":{"0":"post-267957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-economy-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-armenia-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267957","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=267957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}