‘Health & Treatment’ Inflation at 47.4%

“Health and Medical Treatment”, one of 12 groups of goods and services surveyed by the Statistical Center of Iran, registered an annualized inflation rate of 47.4% in the second month of the current Iranian year (April 21-May 21).
The group’s month-on-month and year-on-year inflation stood at 6.3% and 57.2% receptively.
The overall annualized inflation in the second month of the current Iranian year stood at 49.1%, up from 47.6% reported in the previous month and 45.8% in the month before, SCI says.
The general goods and services Consumer Price Index (using the Iranian year to March 2022 as the base year) stood at 185.5 in the month under review, indicating a month-on-month rise of 2.8% and a year-on-year rise of 54.6%.