{"id":524273,"date":"2026-03-10T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524273"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:37:35","slug":"annual-inflation-slows-to-5-6-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/annual-inflation-slows-to-5-6-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Annual Inflation Slows To 5.6% In February"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belstat has published inflation data for February. Monthly inflation amounted to 0.6%, which is 0.1 percentage points higher than in January. At the same time, the annual inflation rate slowed from 6.4% to 5.6%. This is likely related to the increase in housing and utility tariffs that was postponed until 1 March.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has increased by 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Core inflation, which excludes changes in prices for seasonal and regulated goods and services, amounted to 0.5% in February, the same as in January, and reached 0.8% since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In February compared with January, food prices increased by 0.8%, non-food goods by 0.2%, and services by 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, food prices have risen by 1.4%, non-food goods by 0.3%, and service tariffs by 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, prices for food products increased by 8.7%, non-food goods by 2.1%, and service tariffs by 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The inflation target for 2026 is set at no more than 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belstat has published inflation data for February. Monthly inflation amounted to 0.6%, which is 0.1 percentage points higher than in January. At the same time, the annual inflation rate slowed from 6.4% to 5.6%. This is likely related to the increase in housing and utility tariffs that was postponed until 1 March. Since the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":501238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69afd853be794.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Annual Inflation Slows To 5.6% In February"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}