For the 19th month in a row, the official inflation rate has risen in Iran.

For the 19th month in a row, the official inflation rate has risen in Iran.

According to the latest report of the Iranian Statistics Center, the annual inflation rate in September reached 6.73% with an increase of 3.7 percentage points compared to the previous month. An unprecedented figure since 1322.

According to this report, the price of goods and services consumed by people in September this year was 89.8% higher than in September last year. A figure called point-to-point inflation.

Surveys by the Statistics Center show that communication costs, car prices and shoes and clothes were among the items that had the highest increase in the month of September. This report shows that point-to-point inflation in rural areas is 22 percent higher than in urban areas, and for the decile with the lowest income in society - the first decile - is about 10% higher than the tenth decile - the decile with the highest income in society.

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