In February 2018, prices for food products increased by 1.1%, and for non-food products - by 1.3%. Prices of services in February increased by 0.7%.

The State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said that the increase in prices for food products in February ensured a general increase in the consumer price index by 0.49 percentage points, for non-food products - 0.45 percentage points and for services - 0.16 percentage points.

According to the agency, prices for fruits and vegetables increased by an average of 3.5% in February, in particular, for fruits - by 4.1% and vegetables - by 6.7%.

Pumpkin has become more expensive by 10.0% in February. Prices from tomatoes went up by 14.0%, cucumbers - by 11.7%. At the same time, against the background of a general rise in prices for vegetables, prices for potatoes and onions decreased (by 2.7% and 2.3%, respectively).

Prices of meat, poultry and fish went up by 2.2% in February. In particular, the prices for beef and mutton increased by 3%, in fish by 7.2%. At the same time, poultry meat fell 1.3%. Eggs became cheaper on average by 10.5%.

In February, sugar became cheaper by an average of 3.0% and hard cheeses, confectionery products - by 0.1%.

In February 2018, in the regions of the republic there were differences in the level of average prices for certain food products.

Thus, the maximum average price of beef (except boneless meat) in February was 36,967 soums per kg (Tashkent), the minimum - 29,725 soums per kilogram (Republic of Karakalpakstan), the maximum average price for kg of boneless beef – 44,868 soums (Tashkent), the minimum – 39,000 soums (the Republic of Karakalpakstan).

The gap between the maximum and minimum average price of 1 kg potato between regions was 1.2 times (3843 soums in the Republic of Karakalpakstan versus 3,272 soums in Jizzakh region).

The maximum average price of a dozen eggs was 6,655 soums (Syrdarya region), the minimum average price is 5,500 soums (Andijan region).

In February, construction materials went up by 7.4%, medicines - 1.4%, personal care products - 1.2%, footwear - 0.7%, clothes - 0.4%.

Of the building materials, prices for brick increased most significantly: by 29.3%, cement by 8.4%, slate by 5.9%, and sawnwood by 3.3%.

At the same time, passenger transport services grew by 2%, communication services - 1.8%, household services and housing and communal services - 0.6%.

From the observed communication services, an increase in tariffs for services provided to the population by the Uzbektelecom company was registered. In particular, the subscription fee for local telephony increased by an average of 27.7%, long distance and international - an average of 67.1%.

Passenger transport services became more expensive due to increase in the cost of tickets for travel on long-distance trains - an average of 31.9% and an increase in the cost of air transportation services in the observed areas - an average of 2.8%.