{"id":549637,"date":"2026-06-10T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=549637"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:53:12","slug":"annual-inflation-falls-to-4-8-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/annual-inflation-falls-to-4-8-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Annual Inflation Falls to 4.8% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belstat has published inflation data for May. Monthly inflation stood at 0.1%, which was 0.7 percentage points lower than in April. The annual inflation rate also decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has risen by 2.6%. It should be recalled that the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade has set monthly targets for permissible price growth. For April, the target was 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Core inflation, which excludes price changes for seasonal and regulated goods and services, amounted to 0.3% in May, or 0.1 percentage points less than in April. Since the beginning of the year, it has reached 2%.<\/p>\n<p>In May compared with April, food prices fell by 0.2%, non-food goods became 0.1% more expensive, and services rose by 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, food prices have increased by 1.5%, non-food goods by 1.4%, and service tariffs by 5.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 12 months, food prices have risen by 4.9%, non-food goods by 2%, and service tariffs by 8.5%.<\/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 May. Monthly inflation stood at 0.1%, which was 0.7 percentage points lower than in April. The annual inflation rate also decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 5.4%. Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has risen by 2.6%. It should be recalled that the Ministry of [&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\/06\/6a2925fc32e2b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Annual Inflation Falls to 4.8% in May"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549637","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\/549637","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=549637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549637\/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=549637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}