Launched subsequent social programs have an impact on the level of prices and inflation. According to the NBP, the core inflation (excluding food and energy prices) in relation y / y in April 2019 amounted to 1.7%. against 1.4 percent in March; after excluding administered prices (subject to state control) inflation in year-on-year terms amounted to 2.3 percent, compared to 1.9 percent. a month earlier; after excluding the most variable prices, it amounted to 1.7%,

compared to 1.5%; after excluding food and energy prices, it reached 1.7 percent, compared to 1.4 percent. In April, the CPI inflation index provided by the Central Statistical Office increased to 2.2 percent. y / y (by 0.5 percentage point in relation to March). This is more than the highest forecasted value (at the level of 2.1 percent). The above data indicate that the inflation target, set at 2.5%, will be exceeded, and inflation at the end of the year may reach 3%.

source: NBP