The annual rate measured by Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) in December 2017 is 2.4 %. The most increase of the prices it was notice in the “Food and non-alcoholic beverages” group by 5.5 %, followed by “Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels” by    2.1 %, “Transport” by 1.5 %, “Education service” by 0.9 %, etc. Prices of the “Furniture household goods and maintenance” group are decrease by 0.6 %.