DUSHANBE, March 17, 2015, Asia-Plus -- In Tajikistan, inflation for the two months of this year has stood at 0.7 percent, according to the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT).

In February, prices for goods and rates for services rendered to the population reportedly rose by only 0.1 percent.

Meanwhile, an annual inflation for the period from February 2014 to February 2015 stood at 6.8 percent, an official source at Tajik central bank says.

According to him, the government expected the year-end inflation to stand at 7.5 percent this year.

We will recall that the year-end inflation for 2014 stood at 7.4 percent, 3.5 percent higher than in 2013.

It should be noted that Tajikistan had the lowest inflation rate among Central Asia’s countries in 2013.

In Central Asia, the highest average inflation rate in 2013 was recorded in Uzbekistan – 7.0 percent.  In Turkmenistan, inflation last year stood at 6.0 percent, Kazakhstan – 4.5 percent, and Kyrgyzstan – 4.0 percent.  In Tajikistan, the year-end inflation stood at 3.7 percent in 2013.