Prices for dwellings grew the most, an annual 12% in January. Prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, and alcoholic beverages and tobacco rose by 9.4% and 3.7%, respectively.
On a month-on-month basis, consumer prices rose 1.9% in January, following a 0.9% increase in the previous month. In a separate report the Warsaw-based agency said, that Poland's gross domestic product (GDP) advanced 7.3% year-on-year in the Q4 of 2021, picking up from a 5.3% expansion in the previous three-month period, above market expectations of a 7.1% gain.
It was the third straight month of expansion, as the Polish economy continued to recover from the economic setbacks brought by the pandemic. On a seasonally adjusted quarterly basis, the GDP rose by 1.7%, following 2.3% growth in the previous period.
