KYIV, Jan 10 - Industrial prices in Ukraine in 2017 increased by 16.5% against 35.7% in 2016, 25.4% in 2015, and 31.7% in 2014, the State Statistics Service said on Tuesday.

In December 2017 alone, the growth of industrial prices slowed to 1.7% against 1.8% in November and 2.3% in October 2017.

At the same time, the statistics service said the average annual price increase in industry in 2017 (January-December to January-December of the previous year) was 26.4% compared to 20.5% in 2016.