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Spanish customer rates in December increased 6.7% from the exact same month in 2015, the fastest yearly speed of inflation given that 1989, flash information from the National Statistics Institute (INE) revealed on Thursday.
The 12- month inflation rate to November was 5.5%, and experts surveyed by Reuters had actually anticipated the last 2021 reading to come to 5.7%.
Prices increased 1.3% in December from November, compared to a 0.2% increase in December 2020, INE stated.
Electricity charges drove the yearly cost index to the 32- year high, INE stated, including that rates for food likewise increased considerably in 2021, after a basic decrease the previous year.
The inflation rate for 2021 was the greatest given that a 6.9% boost in 1989, when the nation was experiencing a fast financial growth after signing up with the European Community, as the European Union was then called, in 1986.
Spain likewise signed up a yearly inflation rate of 6.9% in March 1992.
INE information likewise revealed Spain’s EU-harmonized customer cost index increased 6.7% in December on a yearly basis, up from 5.5% inNovember Analysts surveyed by Reuters had actually anticipated a reading of 5.8%.
