Prices of essential consumer goods and services increased according to the price of input materials and entering the new school year 2022-2023, education tuition fees in some localities increased again, but domestic gasoline prices were continuously downward adjustment from July 2022 has made the consumer price index (CPI) in August 2022 only increase slightly by 0.005% compared to the previous month. Compared to December 2021, August CPI increased by 3.6% and over the same period last year by 2.89%.
On average in 8 months of 2022, CPI increased by 2.58% over the same period last year; core inflation increased by 1.64%.