In November, the annual rate of inflation as measured by the Retail Price Index stood at 0.84 per cent, the National Statistics Office said today.

In November, the annual inflation rate stood at 0.84 per cent. A year earlier the annual rate was 0.20 per cent.

The main upward impacts were recorded in the Food Index (0.64 percentage points), Transport and Communication Index (0.24 percentage points) and the Beverages and Tobacco Index (0.21 percentage points). This was mainly due to higher prices of vegetables, cars and cigarettes respectively.

The largest downward impact on annual inflation was recorded in the Water, Electricity, Gas and Fuels Index (-0.63 percentage points), mainly due to lower electricity rates.

The twelve-month moving average rate was 0.39 per cent.