{"id":1204170,"date":"2022-09-14T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/ghanas-inflation-rate-rises-again-hits-33-9-in-august-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:41:07","slug":"ghanas-inflation-rate-rises-again-hits-33-9-in-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/ghanas-inflation-rate-rises-again-hits-33-9-in-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s inflation rate rises again; hits 33.9% in August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s inflation for August 2022 rose to 33.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by the Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Annim at a press conference on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, when he gave a breakdown of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Food inflation for August 2022 was 34.4 percent as against 32.3 percent in July 2022, while non-food inflation was 33.6 percent in August 2022 as against 31.3 percent in July of the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year inflation for housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels had the highest inflation rate recorded at 46.7 percent with transport recording the second highest at 45.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) however show that the country recorded its lowest month-on-month rate of inflation for 2022 at 1.9 percent from 3.1 percent in July.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"e4Xmz1meqsc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is the solution to Ghana&#039;s high inflation ? -  Ahomka-Lindsay\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4Xmz1meqsc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s inflation for August 2022 rose to 33.9 percent. This was announced by the Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Annim at a press conference on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, when he gave a breakdown of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation for 2022. Food inflation for August 2022 was 34.4 percent as against 32.3 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204170","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=1204170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}