Borsch To Inflation In Belarus

Food prices have gone up.

Belstat has recently reported that the price of food went up by 4.2% over the month and that its price rose by 15.6% over the year. Some things became a bit more expensive, some of them grew in price significantly - the figures are given as an average, like the temperature in a hospital. So let's add some specifics and calculate how the cost of a pot of homemade borsch has changed, writes onliner.by.

How does the homemade borsch react to inflation?

The Internet has hundreds of versions of the recipe for the "only correct" borsch, the journalists have chosen the first available and calculated its cost on the basis of the National Statistics Committee. In case you did not know, the National Statistics Committee publishes the average price of consumer goods and services every month.

If you bought products for the borsch at the Belstat prices, in March 2021, it would cost you Br8.15. A year later, the same borsch would cost 14% more (remember, the total cost of food rose by 15.6%). In one month a pot of borsch became 1% more expensive.