{"id":1223062,"date":"2022-10-13T00:51:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/ghanas-inflation-rate-increase-from-33-9-to-37-2\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T00:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:51:53","slug":"ghanas-inflation-rate-increase-from-33-9-to-37-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/ghanas-inflation-rate-increase-from-33-9-to-37-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Inflation Rate Increase From 33.9% To 37.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Ghana Statistical Service reports that the nation&#8217;s inflation rate for September was 37.2%. The rate has climbed, according to the GSS, from 33.9% in August 2022 to 37.2% in September 2022. This represents a monthly increase of 2.0 percent above the 33.9 percent reported in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p>However, the rate is 37.2% higher now than it was in September 2021. Inflation rose by 2.2 percentage points year over year between August and September of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation rates for domestically produced items were 35.7% and for imported goods were 40.7%. The West experienced the highest food inflation rate (47.0%), while the East experienced the highest non-food inflation rate (42.0%).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/f416922cfe20473a9acfdf868b261918\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Region recorded the highest rate of inflation (41%), followed by the Western Region (40%) and the Greater Accra Region (39%).<\/p>\n<p>While transportation experienced the highest rate of inflation (68.7%) in the Eastern Region, fish and other seafood experienced the highest rate (64.0%) in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: barbaraagyeman006 (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nEastern Region<br \/>\nGSS<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGreater Accra<br \/>\nWestern Region<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Statistical Service reports that the nation&#8217;s inflation rate for September was 37.2%. The rate has climbed, according to the GSS, from 33.9% in August 2022 to 37.2% in September 2022. This represents a monthly increase of 2.0 percent above the 33.9 percent reported in August 2022. However, the rate is 37.2% higher now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[250,445,227,179],"class_list":["post-1223062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ghanas","tag-increase","tag-inflation","tag-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223062","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=1223062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}