Consumer price index of October 2022

• Inflation in October has gone up from 11.27% to 12.27%, reaching its highest level since June 1975, when it stood at 12.50%.
• The consumer price index this month increases by 2.97 points or 2.37%.
• Inflation based on the health index has increased to 12.27% from 11.25%.
• The smoothed health index stood at 122.22 points in October. The central index for public service and social benefits, set at 120.73 points, was therefore exceeded.
• The high inflation this month, as in recent months, is largely due to high energy prices. Energy currently has an inflation rate of 63.03% and accounts for 5.95 percentage points of the total inflation.

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