Australian consumer price index increased for another 20 years high

Xinhua News Agency, Canberra, July 27 (Reporter Yue Dongxing) According to the data released by the Australian Statistics Bureau on the 27th, the Australian Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.8%in the second quarter of this year, a year -on -year increase of 6.1%.New high.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said in a statement that day that the rising CPI in the second quarter was mainly due to the rise in prices in the fields of new housing and automobile fuel.Among them, the continuous shortage of construction materials and labor, rising freight and continuous demand, and promoting the rise in new residential prices; automobile fuel prices have innovated for four consecutive quarters.

In the first quarter of this year, the Australian CPI increased by 2.1%month -on -month and a year -on -year increase of 5.1%. At that time, it was the largest increase since 2001.

[Editor in charge: Liu Yang]

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