{"id":271358,"date":"2026-03-17T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=271358"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:47:21","slug":"food-and-non-alcoholic-beverages-accounted-for-approximately-59-of-armenias-inflation-in-february-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/03\/17\/271358\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and non-alcoholic beverages accounted for approximately 59% of Armenia&#8217;s inflation in February \u2013 WB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 17. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> In February, inflation in Armenia rose to 4.3% (y\/y) from 3.8% (y\/y) in January. According to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 March 2026,&#8221; food and non-alcoholic beverages continued to be the largest contributors, increasing in price by 6.5% and contributing approximately 59% to overall inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study notes that prices for alcoholic beverages and healthcare increased by 10.3% and 4.5%, respectively, each contributing 11% to overall inflation. Inflation also increased in transportation (3.6%) and education (8.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 scenarios (A-B), and 3.3-2.8% for 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n February, inflation in Armenia rose to 4.3% (y\/y) from 3.8% (y\/y) in January. According to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 March 2026,&#8221; food and non-alcoholic beverages continued to be the largest contributors, increasing in price by 6.5% and contributing approximately 59% to overall inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":156984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,12139,9216],"tags":[12688],"class_list":{"0":"post-271358","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-analyst-inflation"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271358","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=271358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}