Non-food prices grew 6.78% on the year in August, food prices grew 4.15%, and service prices grew 2.61%.
Compared with end-December, prices grew 2.22% in August, with 3.21% growth in prices of non-food items, 1.56% growth in services prices, and 1.23% growth in food prices.
Compared with July, food prices dropped 0.17% in August, but non-food prices grew 0.66%, and service prices grew 0.13%, the data showed.
Romania’s central bank in May raised its year-end inflation forecast to 3.6% from a previous projection of 3.5% but kept its end-2019 inflation forecast at 3%. It said it expected inflation to hover around 5% in the second and third quarters and then easing in the fourth quarter.