The Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) announced that the inflation rate in the twelve-month period ended on October 21, which marks the end of the seventh Iranian calendar month of Mehr stood at 27.2 percent. The inflation rate has grown 1.2 percent in the mentioned time span from the last-months period (26.0%).
The overall CPI (using the Iranian year to March 2017 as the base year) stood at 261.4 for the Iranian month to October 21, indicating a 7.0% rise compared with the month before and 41,4% compared with the similar month of the previous Iranian year.