DUSHANBE, November 19, 2015, Asia-Plus — In Tajikistan, inflation for the first ten months of this year has stood at 4.1 percent, which was 2.0 percent less than in the same period last year, according to the National bank of Tajikistan (NBT).
In October, Tajikistan’s inflation reportedly stood at 0.5 percent, 0.1 percent higher than in October last year.
An official source at Tajik central bank says the government expects the year-end inflation to stand at 7.5 percent in 2015.
Last year, inflation reportedly stood at 7.4 percent, 0.1 percent lower than it was originally forecasted.
We will recall that the Trading Economics website reports that Tajikistan in 2013 had the lowest inflation rate among Central Asia’s countries.
In Central Asia, the highest average inflation rate in 2013 was recorded in Uzbekistan – 7.0 percent. In Turkmenistan, inflation last year stood at 6.0 percent, Kazakhstan – 4.5 percent, and Kyrgyzstan – 4.0 percent. In Tajikistan, the year-end inflation stood at 3.7 percent in 2013.
