Consumer price inflation in Croatia eased in May from a 30-month high in the prior month, flash data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.
The consumer price index climbed 5.2% year-on-year in May, slower than the 5.8% rise in April, which was the highest inflation since October 2023.
The overall price growth in May was largely driven by a 16.9% surge in energy costs. Prices for food, beverages and tobacco rose 2.3%, and services costs were 7.9% higher. Meanwhile, prices of non-food industrial goods, excluding energy, dropped 0.7%.
On a monthly basis, consumer prices edged down 0.2% in May.
The EU measure of inflation, the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), was 4.9% percent in May, down from 5.4% in the previous month.
