Food prices grew 5.02% on the year in August, prices of non-food items were 2.98% higher, and service prices grew 4.23%.
Compared with July, food prices were 0.3% lower in August, prices of non-food items were 0.2% higher, and service prices were 0.25% higher.
Romania’s central bank sees inflation at 4.2% at the end of 2019. It expects inflation will remain outside the target variation band of 1.5%-3.5% throughout the rest of the year.