Armenia: Food prices go up by 3.8% in January

YEREVAN. – Increasing prices for food and non-alcoholic beverage drove the inflation rate higher in Armenia this January.

A 1.7 percent inflation was recorded in consumer market in January as compared with December after the prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages went up by 3.8 percent, the data provided by the national statistical service shows.

In Yerevan consumer prices went up by 1.2 percent.