SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), September 20 (SeeNews) – Bosnia and Herzegovina's annual inflation accelerated to 1.0% in August, from 0.9% in July, the country's statistical office said on Wednesday.
Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 1.0% year-on-year in August, prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco increased by 6.4%, and prices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels rose by 1.3%, Bosnia's Agency for Statistics said in a monthly inflation report.
Prices of transport increased by 3.8% year-on-year in August, of healthcare services by 1.6%, education by 0.9%, communications by 0.5%, recreation and culture by 0.7% and restaurant and hotel services by 0.3%.
On a monthly comparison basis, Bosnia's consumer prices edged down 0.2% in August, after dropping 0.4% in July. Lower prices in divisions of food and non-alcoholic beverages, clothing and footwear, furniture and furnishing, transport, recreation and culture and other goods and services.
In 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina annual deflation expanded to 1.1% from 1.0% in 2015.