DUSHANBE, April 9, 2014, Asia-Plus – In Tajikistan inflation for the first three months of this year has stood at 2.4 percent, according to the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT).

In March, inflation reportedly stood at 1.1 percent.

A source at Tajik central bank says the government expects the year-end inflation 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.