{"id":141633,"date":"2024-01-22T09:39:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T09:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/imf-predicts-15-0-end-of-year-inflation-in-2024-8-0-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T09:39:40","slug":"imf-predicts-15-0-end-of-year-inflation-in-2024-8-0-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/imf-predicts-15-0-end-of-year-inflation-in-2024-8-0-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF predicts 15.0% end-of-year inflation in 2024, 8.0% in 2025 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting a 15% end-of-year inflation in 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is also forecasting an 8.0% end-of-year inflation in 2025, 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the increasing prices of goods and services will slow down this year and drastically in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation was captured in the Fund\u2019s latest document dubbed \u201cGhana: Selected Economic and Financial Indicators, 2022\u201328\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year inflation fell significantly by 30.4 percentage points in 2023 to 23.2% in December 2023. In January 2023, Ghana\u2019s inflation rate stood at 53.6%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the figures from the Ghana Statistical Service, food inflation drove down the overall inflation with a rate of 28.7% in December 2023, compared with 32.2% in November 2023. The non-food inflation also went down to 18.7% in December 2023 from 21.7% in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation for locally produced items stood at 23.8% in December 2023, whilst inflation for imported items was 21.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Six divisions recorded inflation rates higher than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>They were Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco and Narcotics (38.2%); Personal Care, Social Protection and Miscellaneous Goods and Services (31.1%); Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages (28.7%); Restaurants and Accommodation Services (28.0%); Furnishings, Household Equipment and Routine Household Maintenance (26.9%) and Recreation, Sports and Culture (24.9%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a>Joy Business<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting a 15% end-of-year inflation in 2024. It is also forecasting an 8.0% end-of-year inflation in 2025, 2026 and 2027. 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