Croatia’s annual inflation rate in October stood at 2.2 percent, halting the gradual decline since May, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on Thursday.
The country’s annual inflation dropped from 3.3 percent in May to 1.6 percent in September, the statement said.
In October, prices for industrial non-food products (excluding energy) rose by 2.7 percent, energy prices by 1.4 percent, and prices for food, beverages, and tobacco by 1 percent, the statement noted.
In the Eurozone as a whole, where the average annual inflation stood at 2 percent in October, higher inflation rates were recorded in Belgium (4.7 percent) and Estonia (4.5 percent), while Slovakia had the same inflation rate as Croatia.