{"id":118435,"date":"2023-05-08T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=118435"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:39:33","slug":"in-april-inflation-was-influenced-the-most-by-rising-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/in-april-inflation-was-influenced-the-most-by-rising-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"In April, inflation was influenced the most by rising food prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to data released by Statistics Estonia, in April, the Consumer Price Index (which is a key indicator of inflation) increased by 2.0 per cent compared with March and by 13.5 per cent compared with April 2022.&nbsp;Goods were 13.6 per cent and services 13.1 per cent more expensive than in April last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cCompared with April 2022,&nbsp;the Consumer Price Index was influenced the most by price increases of food and non-alcoholic beverages, which accounted for nearly two-fifths of the total rise, and housing-related price changes that accounted for a fifth of the total increase,\u201d said<b> Viktoria Trasanov<\/b>, a team lead at Statistics Estonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cElectricity that reached homes was 49.4 per cent, while gas was 43.4 per cent cheaper. In April, the automatic compensation scheme for electricity and district heating came to an end. The price of gas had already fallen below the compensation threshold earlier,\u201d added Trasanov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Among food products, the biggest increase compared with April of last year occurred in the price of sugar (86.1 per cent). Cocoa was 41.5 per cent, olive oil 41.4 per cent, sauces 40.9 per cent, bread products 35.6 per cent, and poultry meat 35.1 per cent more expensive.\u201c\u201dPetrol was 6.2 per cent and diesel fuel 12.5 per cent cheaper,\u201d concluded Trasanov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Compared with March 2023, the Consumer Price Index was influenced the most by housing-related price changes, which accounted for 70 per cent of the total increase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-1024x853.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-1024x853.png 1024w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-650x542.png 650w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-768x640.png 768w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-85x71.png 85w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-18x15.png 18w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-120x100.png 120w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-150x125.png 150w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-210x175.png 210w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-180x150.png 180w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image-450x375.png 450w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CPIApril-Image.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to data released by Statistics Estonia, in April, the Consumer Price Index (which is a key indicator of &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13498,13747,13912,14693,15108,18204,18310],"class_list":["post-118435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-electricity","tag-inflation","tag-food-prices","tag-price-rises","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-petrol","tag-diesel-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118447,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118435\/revisions\/118447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}