{"id":575233,"date":"2026-09-10T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=575233"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:39:46","slug":"belstat-records-deflation-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belstat-records-deflation-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Belstat Records Deflation In August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The consumer price index fell by 0.1% in August compared with July, according to data from Belstat. Despite the deflation in August, the annual rate of price growth continued to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Annual inflation in August was 4.5%, compared with 4.4% in July.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has risen by 3.1%. It was previously reported that the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade had set monthly benchmarks for permissible price growth. For August, the benchmark was 4.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Core inflation, which excludes changes in prices for seasonal and regulated goods and services, was 0.4% in August, 0.2 percentage points lower than in July, while since the beginning of the year it reached 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p>In August compared with July, food prices fell by 0.8%, non-food prices rose by 0.5%, and services increased by 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, food prices have risen by 0.7%, non-food prices by 2.8%, while service tariffs have increased by 7.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, food prices increased by 3.1%, non-food prices by 3.2%, and service tariffs by 8.7%.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that the target inflation rate for 2026 is no more than 7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consumer price index fell by 0.1% in August compared with July, according to data from Belstat. Despite the deflation in August, the annual rate of price growth continued to increase. Annual inflation in August was 4.5%, compared with 4.4% in July. Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has risen by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":495800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa26cd677e0e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belstat Records Deflation In August"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575233","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\/575233","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=575233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}