Bosnia's annual inflation accelerates in September

Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 2.1% year-on-year in September, prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco increased by 6.2%, and prices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels rose by 1.5%, Bosnia's Agency for Statistics said in a monthly inflation report.

Prices of transport increased by 4.0% year-on-year in September, of healthcare services by 1.5%, education by 0.4%, communications by 0.4%, recreation and culture by 1.3% and restaurant and hotel services by 0.3%.

On a monthly comparison basis, Bosnia's consumer prices edged up 0.5% in September, after dropping 0.2% in August.

Higher prices were recorded in the sectors of food and non-alcoholic beverages, clothing and footwear, housing and utilities, furniture and furnishings, health, transport, and other goods and services. 

In 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina annual deflation expanded to 1.1% from 1.0% in 2015.