KYIV, Jan 10 - The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in 2017 accelerated to 13.7% compared with 12.4% in 2016, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

The figure, however, is significantly lower than in the past years: it was 43.3% in 2015 and 24.9% in 2014, the service said.

In December 2017 alone, inflation was 1% against 0.9% in November and 1.2% in October, it said.