LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), December 28 (SeeNews) – Slovenia's consumer prices rose by 1.4% year-on-year in December, after growing by 2.0% in November, the country's statistical office said on Friday.
Annual inflation was 1.7% in December 2017, the statistical office said in a statement.
The average annual inflation in 2018 was 1.7%, lower than 1.4% in the period January-December last year.
In 2018, the largest upward push on annual inflation - by 0.5 p.p. - came from higher prices of electricity by 3.3%, gas by 4.3% and liquid fuels by 10.4%.
On the other hand, annual inflation was slowed by 0.2 p.p. by a 2.8% drop in prices of motor cars (2.8%).
On a monthly comparison basis, Slovenia's consumer prices edged down 0.6% in December, after adding 0.1% in November.
Measured by the EU harmonised index of consumer prices, Slovenia's annual inflation was 1.4% in December.