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Euro Area Annual Inflation Hits 9.1%, Up to 10.1% in EU: Eurostat

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Eurozone inflation reached 9.1% in August, more than tripling year-on-year, with food and energy prices remaining on an upward curve, the European Statistical Office (Eurostat) said in a report published on Friday.
"The euro area annual inflation rate was 9.1% in August 2022, up from 8.9% in July. A year earlier, the rate was 3.0%," the EU statistical office said.   
In August, the largest contributor to the annual euro area inflation rate was energy, followed by food, alcohol and tobacco, services and non-energy industrial goods, Eurostat said.
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"European Union annual inflation was 10.1% in August 2022, up from 9.8% in July," Eurostat said, adding that a year earlier, this figure was 3.2%.
The lowest annual inflation rates were recorded in France at 6.6%, Malta at 7% and Finland at 7.9%, while the highest annual rates were seen in Estonia at 25.2%, Latvia at 21.4% and Lithuania at 21.1%.
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