{"id":80553,"date":"2026-02-18T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=80553"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:05:36","slug":"inflation-reaches-5-8-here-are-the-products-and-services-that-became-most-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/inflation-reaches-5-8-here-are-the-products-and-services-that-became-most-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation reaches 5.8%; here are the products and services that became most expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The year 2026 has started with a noticeable increase in prices in Kosovo. The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) recorded an annual rise of 5.8% in January 2026 compared to the same period last year, while prices increased by 1.2% within a single month, according to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics, reports KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flights and housing services see the largest increases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kosovo Agency of Statistics reports that the most significant annual increase was recorded in airline tickets, which rose by 50.4%, heavily impacting citizens\u2019 budgets. Large increases were also noted in water supply and housing-related services (44.4%), as well as electricity (16.7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cConsiderable price increases were also recorded for: solid fuels (17.2%), fruits (15.5%), meat (13.1%), dairy products, cheese, and eggs (8.7%), hotel services (8.6%), and coffee, tea, and cocoa (10.3%),\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>the ASK statement notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, these groups contributed a combined impact of 6.2% to total inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Price increases within the month<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to December 2025, prices in January rose by 1.2%. Again, airline tickets (42.1%) and housing services (41.4%) topped the list of monthly price increases. Price rises were also recorded for vegetables (4.2%), electricity (1.5%), and meat (0.7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike most goods and services, fuels and lubricants for personal transport decreased by 7.3% on an annual basis and 3.4% on a monthly basis, partially easing inflationary pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2026 has started with a noticeable increase in prices in Kosovo. The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) recorded an annual rise of 5.8% in January 2026 compared to the same period last year, while prices increased by 1.2% within a single month, according to the Kosovo Agency of Statistics, reports KosovaPress. Flights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":80555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,297,296],"tags":[7563,5639,5225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80556,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80553\/revisions\/80556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}