{"id":270631,"date":"2026-02-17T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=270631"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:35:46","slug":"two-thirds-of-armenias-january-inflation-was-driven-by-rising-food-and-soft-drink-prices-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/270631\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of Armenia&#8217;s January inflation was driven by rising food and soft drink prices \u2013 WB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 17. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Two-thirds of the inflation was driven by a 5.9% increase in food and soft drink prices, according to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 February 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The remainder was driven by inflation on alcoholic beverages (9%), healthcare (3%), transportation (4.3%), and education (8.3%),&#8221; the study states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Armstat, 12-month inflation in the Armenian consumer market (January 2026 compared to January 2025) was 3.8%. Armenia&#8217;s 2026 state budget projects inflation at 3% (\u00b11%). According to the Central Bank&#8217;s monetary policy report for the fourth quarter of last year, inflation in Armenia is expected to be 3.8-2.6% by the end of 2026, depending on scenario (A-B), and the forecast for 2027 is 3.3-2.8%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Two-thirds of the inflation was driven by a 5.9% increase in food and soft drink prices, according to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 February 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":258637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15626],"class_list":{"0":"post-270631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-15626"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270631","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=270631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}