The figure was 0.6 percentage points lower than forecast by economists polled by Poland’s PAP news agency.
In October, the prices of consumer goods and services in Poland were 17.9 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.
In September, Poland's consumer price index stood at 17.2 percent, Statistics Poland reported.
Poland’s central bank in mid-November updated its inflation projections for the country, saying it now expects inflation to average at 14.5 percent this year, followed by 13.1 percent in 2023 and 5.9 percent in 2024.
Poland’s central bank chief, Adam Glapiński, said earlier this month that inflation in the country would likely hit a peak of 19 percent "in January or February," before starting to fall in March and declining to around 8 percent in the final quarter of 2023.
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Source: PAP