October 30 (SeeNews) - Slovenia's consumer prices rose by 1.0% year-on-year in October, after growing by an annual 1.4% in the previous month, the country's statistical office said on Monday.
In October, the strongest upward push on annual inflation (0.3 of a percentage point) came from higher prices of petroleum products (fuel prices increased by 9.2%, with diesel prices up 8.0% and petrol prices up 4.4%) and food prices, which rose 1.7% on average.
A 3% annual drop in prices of garments acted in the opposite direction, pushing down annual inflation by 0.2 of a percentage point.
On a monthly comparison basis, Slovenia's consumer prices edged up 0.1% in October, after rising 0.2% in September.
The monthly inflation rate was pushed up by 0.3 of a percentage point by higher prices of garments (by 6.1%). An additional 0.1 of a percentage point each was contributed by higher prices of electricity, gas and other fuels (by 0.7%) and motor fuels (diesel prices increased by 2.5%, petrol prices rose by 0.1%).
Measured by the harmonised index of consumer prices, Slovenia's annual inflation was 1.3% in October, while the monthly price growth was 0.3%.
Slovenia posted annual inflation of 0.5% last year.