December 29 (SeeNews) - Slovenia posted an annual inflation of 1.4% in 2017, reversing a deflation of 0.1% in 2016, the country's statistical office said on Friday.
In 2017, the largest upward impact on annual inflation, of 2.5 percentage points, came from higher prices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, while an additional 2.2 p.p., each, was added by higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages (on average prices went up by 4.6 %) and alcoholic beverages and tobacco (by 4.8%), the office said.
Measured by the harmonised index of consumer prices, Slovenia's annual inflation was 1.6% in 2017.
In December alone, Slovenia's consumer prices rose by 1.7% on the year, after growing by 1.2% in November.
Prices of education services grew by 3.7% on the year in December, while prices of housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels went up 3.6% and alcoholic beverages and tobacco costs expanded 3.0%.
On the other hand, prices of communications decreased 2.3% month-on-month in December.