12:43 - 13.02.2026

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February 13, Fineko/abc.az. Annual inflation in Azerbaijan will drop to 3.5% by the end of the year, ABC.AZ informs, citing the international economic statistics portal Trading Economics (TE).

The portal has left its inflation forecasts for Azerbaijan unchanged.

The statistics portal predicted inflation in Azerbaijan at 4.7% for the 1st quarter of this year, 4.3% in the 2nd quarter, 4% in the 3rd quarter, and 3.5% in the 4th quarter.

Trading Economics also predicted that the Central Bank of Azerbaijan will reduce the discount rate in parallel. TE believes that the CBA will keep the discount rate stable at 6.5% in the 2nd quarter of this year, reduce it to 6.25% in the 3rd quarter, and to 6% in the last quarter of the year.

The Central Bank last reduced the interest rate by 0.25% points to 6.5% on February 4 of this year.