(MENAFN) The inflation rate in consumer prices for the Jan-July period of this year was 2 percent compared with the same period of 2016.
Furthermore, the consumer price index increased 108 percent amid the period as compared to 105.9 percent posted in the same period of 2016.
Meanwhile, the relative change rate in consumer prices in the country amid July hit 1.5 percent compared with the same month of 2016.
In addition, housing, water, elect, gas and other fuels group reached the largest rise in the index, contributing 49.8 percent.
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