Polish inflation at 3.3% in June: flash estimate

Inflation in Poland stood at 3.3 percent in year-on-year terms in June, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Tuesday in a flash estimate.

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The figure was 0.5 percentage points higher than forecast by economists polled by Poland’s PAP news agency.

Consumer #prices in #Poland in June 2020 increased by 3.3% as compared to June 2019 (price index 103.3). As related to May 2020 they increased by 0.7% (price index 100.7) https://t.co/ngU1z9FSi4#StatisticsPoland #statistics #CPI #PriceIndices #PriceIndex #inflation #prices pic.twitter.com/aa27BZMwjf

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) June 30, 2020

In May, the prices of consumer goods and services in Poland were 2.9 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

The state-run statistics agency earlier this year said it had revised its system of weights used for calculating the consumer price index in Poland in 2020.

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Source: PAP