In 2020 inflation in the Republic of Kazakhstan

In 2020 (December 2020 to December 2019) prices for food products increased by 11,3%, non-food products - by 5,5%, paid services - by 4,2%.

percent, increase

	December 2020 to			January-December 2020 to January-December 2019
	November 2020	December 2019	December 2015	January-December 2020 to January-December 2019
Goods and services	0,9	7,5	38,5	6,8
Foodstuffs	1,5	11,3	49,7	10,4
Non-grocery goods	0,5	5,5	40,6	5,5
Paid services for the population	0,4	4,2	23,2	3,3

Over the past year prices rose for granulated sugar by 33,9%, sunflower oil – by 33,7%, cereals – by 28,7%, eggs – by 20%, potatoes – by 16,8%, flour – by 16,3%, fresh vegetables, mutton– 15,4%, fresh fruit – 14,9%, pasta – 14,7%, butter – 13,6%, horse meat – 11,9%, meat products – by 11,8%, rennet cheese – by 11,4%, tea – by 11,2%, frozen fish – by 10,1%, beef – by 10%, milk – by 9,7% , bakery and flour products – by 8,9%, pork – by 8%, fermented milk products – by 6,9%, bread – by 5,9%.Tobacco products rose in price by 14,9%, mineral and drinking water – by 10,4%, alcoholic beverages – by 7,8%.Price reductions were recorded for chicken legsby 5,7%, millet – by 2,6%, rice– by1,7%.

The increase in prices for gold jewelry was 13%, detergents and cleaning products – 10,2%, medicines – 9,9%, personal goods – 9,4%, household appliances – 8%, cars – 7,3%. notebook – 6,7%, furniture and household items – 6,6%, dishes – 6,1%, clothes and shoes – 4,8%.Coal rose in price by 3,5%, gasoline – by 2,5%, and diesel fuel fell in price by 6,6%.

The level of prices for legal services, insurance of personal vehicles increased by 10%, cinema services – by 8,1%, hairdressers and beauty salons – by 7,2%, catering – by 6,9%, healthcare – 6,3%, visiting the bathhouse – by 5,7%, ritual services – by 5,6%.Taxi fares went up by 6,8%, railway passenger transport – by 4,2%, and air fares – by 6,2%.

In the field of housing and communal services tariffs for garbage collection increased by 20,5%, electricity – by 6,5%, cold water – by 1%, hot water – by 0,7%, and central heating rates decreased by 2%, sewerage – by 1,4%.

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The consumer price index, which characterizes the inflation rate, shows the change in prices for goods and services purchased by the population for personal consumption. The set of goods and services includes 510 positions. Price registration is carried out according to a selective network of trade and services enterprises of various ownership forms in all regional centers, the capital and a certain circle of cities and regional centers. The system of weights used for aggregation in terms of their expenses is calculated based on materials from household surveys for the previous year.

Since January 2020 during the construction of the CPI, the share of food products is 39,0%, non-food – 28,9%, paid services – 32,1%.

www.stat.gov.kz / The official statistic/ By industry/ Price Statistics

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