{"id":532812,"date":"2026-04-10T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=532812"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:11:55","slug":"annual-inflation-slows-to-5-4-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/annual-inflation-slows-to-5-4-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Annual Inflation Slows to 5.4% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belstat has published inflation data for March. Monthly inflation stood at 0.6%, the same level as in February. At the same time, annual inflation slowed from 5.6% to 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has increased by 1.6%. It should be recalled that the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade has set monthly limits for permissible price growth. For March, the threshold was 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Core inflation, which excludes changes in prices for seasonal and regulated goods and services, amounted to 0.5% in March, the same level as in February, while since the beginning of the year it has reached 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p>In March, compared with February, food prices increased by 0.3%, non-food goods by 0.5%, and services by 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, food prices have risen by 1.7%, non-food goods by 0.8%, and service tariffs by 2.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Over the year, food prices increased by 7.8%, non-food goods by 2.2%, and service tariffs by 6%.<\/p>\n<p>The inflation target for 2026 is no more than 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belstat has published inflation data for March. Monthly inflation stood at 0.6%, the same level as in February. At the same time, annual inflation slowed from 5.6% to 5.4%. Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has increased by 1.6%. It should be recalled that the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d8b0ced02cd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Annual Inflation Slows to 5.4% in March"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532812","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=532812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}