LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), December 3 (SeeNews) – Slovenia's consumer prices rose by 2.0% year-on-year in November, after growing by 2.2% in the previous month, the country's statistical office showed.
The largest upward push on annual inflation - by 0.5 p.p. - came from higher prices of oil products, as liquid fuels prices increased by 21.3%, diesel prices by 11.1% and petrol prices by 4.3%, the statistical office said in a statement last week.
Annual inflation was offset by 0.2 p.p. each by lower prices of garments (2.8%) and motor cars (4.0%).
On a monthly comparison basis, Slovenia's consumer prices rose by 0.1% in November, after edging up 0.3% in October.
Measured by the EU harmonised index of consumer prices, Slovenia's annual inflation was 2.1% in November, while the monthly price growth was 0.1%.
Slovenia recorded annual inflation of 1.4% in 2017.