Price increase in Jordan at 1.6% for 2001

Data bases of the costs of living in Jordan for the first 11 months of the current year ( 2001 ) reported an increase in prices at 1.6% in comparison with the same period of time of 2000.

These data bases which were issued by the Jordanian public statistics department said that this standard figure witnessed a reduction in prices for November at a rate of 0.1% in comparison with the preceding month of October. A reduction mainly resulted from the recession in the prices of oils and fats at 1.6%, fruits at 2.4 % and other expenditures at 5.6%.

This standard figure also witnessed an increase at 3.7% in November of the current year in comparison with the same month of 2000.