The World Bank recently released the global food security update. According to the World Bank’s Food Inflation Heat Map, inflation rates of food prices of 2% and below are the best, 2-5% is good, 5-30% is not great, and rates above 30% are the worst.
- According to the map, Kazakhstan has around a 21% inflation rate, Kyrgyzstan has a 17.9% inflation rate, and Tajikistan has a rate of 8.9%. There is no data available for both Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
- Due to lack of reliable data of adequate quality, the World Bank is currently not publishing economic output, income, or growth data for Turkmenistan.
- Overall, based on the data available, Central Asia’s food inflation rates are in the “not great” category, indicating thataccess to food in Central Asia is being made more difficult by rising food prices.
