Clothing Inflation at Over 48%

“Clothing and shoes”, one of the 12 groups of goods and services surveyed by the Statistical Center of Iran for calculating the Consumer Price Index, registered a 48.3% annualized inflation rate in the fifth month of the current Iranian year (July 23-Aug. 22).
SCI put the group’s month-on-month and year-on-year inflation rates at 2.7% and 48.6% respectively.
The 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services surveyed by SCI include "food and beverages" with a coefficient of 26.64%, "tobacco" with 0.59%, "clothing and shoes" with 4.78%, "housing, water, electricity, natural gas and other fuels" with 35.5% (highest), "furniture, home appliances and their maintenance" with 3.93%, "health and treatment" with 7.14%, "transportation" with 9.41%, "communications" with 2.87%, "leisure and culture" with 1.65%, "education" with 1.86%, "hotels and restaurants" with 1.44% and "miscellaneous items and services" with 4.18%.