DUSHANBE, May 8, 2014, Asia-Plus – According the CIS Committee for Statistics, Tajikistan’s inflation for the first quarter of this year has stood at 2.4 percent.

Over the same three-month period, the lowest inflation rate among the CIS nations has been reported in Azerbaijan – 0.5 percent.

Azerbaijan is followed by Armenia (1.2 percent) and Moldova (1.6 percent).

In Russia, inflation for January-March has stood at 2.3 percent, in Ukraine – 3.0 percent, in Kazakhstan – 3.3 percent, in Kyrgyzstan – 3.4 percent and in Belarus – 4.9 percent.

The CIS Committee for Statistics did not provide inflation data for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Meanwhile, the CIS average inflation rate for the report period was 2.5 percent.

Tajik central bank notes that Tajikistan’s year-end inflation expected to stand at 7.5 percent this year.

We will recall that the Trading Economics website reports that Tajikistan last year had the lowest inflation rate among Central Asia’s countries.

In Central Asia, the highest average inflation rate last year 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.