What is real inflation?

In 2014-2015 he conducted an experiment , compared how actually prices in stores with official inflation really rose, then these numbers for the stores Ukhta looked like this:

Please note that of the three presented retail chains there are no longer there, the Arin-Berd and Gourmet stores during this time closed and were finally replaced by the “magnets” and “five”. There are practically no local retail chains in the city.

Today I compared the prices in Magnet with those that were 4-5 years ago, here is the result:

As you can see, compared to 2015, it is not so bad, if you look in general, then an increase of only 16%that fits into official inflation, but a comparison with 2014 is already a sharp jump of 68%. With this, according to Rosstat, during which time prices rose by only 41%. Why such a skew? As I noted earlier, in 2014, in 2014, the official price growth was only 11–12%, and the Ukhta stores for this period grew by 36%, but it is clear that it was already 30%to shine inflation, so they had a lot of 11%, and the difference had to be partially smeared in 2015–2016, so that it was not completely into the eyes, but it is clear that it was completely distorted by the skew. They did not compensate, the difference in the end is 20 percent. Let's see what else from the key positions grew in price:

• The dollar exchange rate: 01/29/2014 - 34.63, now - 66.88, growth - 93%.
• Gasoline: 2014 - 32.46, now - 45.76, growth - 41%.
• Electricity (according to Komi): 2014 - 3.33, 2019 - 4.67, growth - 40%.
• Transport tax (according to Komi, car from 100 to 149 hp) 2014 - 20, 2019 - 30, growth - 50%.

In addition, real estate taxes increased very sharply, there are no exact interest, because We changed the calculation methodology, but on average growth is several times, expenses such as a payout for overhaul, which were not there before at all.

And the salary? 2014 (average at the beginning of the year) - 29535 rubles, 2018 (end of the year) - 42750, growth - 45%.

Those. In terms of salary, as if even higher than inflation, i.e. Officially, we became a few percent richer, but in fact, real expenses increased much more than official inflation, plus we must take into account the growth of credit debt of the population.

According to Rosstat, 13.3% of the population now live behind the poverty line (in 2014 it was 11.2%).

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