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Urban, Rural Consumer Price Changes Surveyed in Provinces

The average goods and services CPI in Iran for the 12-month period ending Jan. 19 increased by 32.2% compared with last year’s corresponding period
Urban, Rural Consumer Price Changes Surveyed in Provinces
Urban, Rural Consumer Price Changes Surveyed in Provinces

The growth in overall Consumer Price Index in the 10th month of the current fiscal year (Dec. 21, 2020-Jan. 19) was the lowest (0.7%) in Mazandaran and Qom provinces when compared with the month before.
This comes as, according to data released by the Statistical Center of Iran, Zanjan Province posted the highest month-on-month inflation of 3.3% last month. 
The overall CPI, using the Iranian year to March 2017 as the base year, stood at 285.7 in the Iranian month under review, indicating a 1.8% rise compared with the previous month.  
Kurdestan Province’s goods and services consumer inflation registered a rise of 55.8% during the month ending Jan. 19 compared with the similar month of the previous year, the highest among all provinces. The year-on-year CPI growth was the lowest for Qom with 41.5%, compared with that of other Iranian provinces. 

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