{"id":1121437,"date":"2022-06-14T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/14\/top-15-items-with-highest-inflation-in-ghana-in-may-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:55:54","slug":"top-15-items-with-highest-inflation-in-ghana-in-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/14\/top-15-items-with-highest-inflation-in-ghana-in-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 15 items with highest inflation in Ghana in May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ghana Statistical Service last week announced that inflation had jumped to 27.6% in May 2022 from 23.6% recorded in April.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of this development are varied and largely driven by local products.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Statistical Service show that 56.2% of the products accounting for the rise in inflation are food and non-food products locally produced, while 43.8% are imported.<\/p>\n<p>The major drivers based on the year-on-year figures show that grapes, which is imported, saw a 100.8% inflation followed by diesel, 81.1%, also imported.<\/p>\n<p>Firewood saw 73.7% year-on-year inflation.<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of the top 15 drivers of inflation below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-859503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"979\"  \/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Statistical Service last week announced that inflation had jumped to 27.6% in May 2022 from 23.6% recorded in April. The drivers of this development are varied and largely driven by local products. Data from the Statistical Service show that 56.2% of the products accounting for the rise in inflation are food and non-food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1119949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[85,3293,227,2704,121],"class_list":["post-1121437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ghana","tag-highest","tag-inflation","tag-items","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}