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Vietnam inflation rate hits 23 percent
AP - Thursday, December 25
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam's inflation rate reached nearly 23 percent in 2008, the highest in nearly two decades, according to government figures released Thursday.
The consumer price index rose 22.97 percent in the past 12 months, the government said, the highest since inflation hit 67 percent in 1991.
The government usually releases economic data before the end of the reporting period based on estimates.
Food prices leaped 49.16 percent from a year earlier, prices of housing and construction materials increased 20.51 percent, and transportation prices rose 16 percent, the General Statistics Office said in a statement.
Soaring inflation has led to a wave of strikes at factories around the country by workers seeking higher wages.
Vietnam's economy has expanded an average 7 percent a year the past decade, but began overheating last year with inflation skyrocketing and the trade deficit ballooning.
The government has predicted an annual growth rate of 6.23 percent for 2008. Last year the country's economy expanded by 8.5 percent.
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