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.