{"id":247312,"date":"2024-11-07T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/07\/october-inflation-increases-to-22-1\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:17:44","slug":"october-inflation-increases-to-22-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/07\/october-inflation-increases-to-22-1\/","title":{"rendered":"October Inflation Increases To 22.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Prof. Samuel Annim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inflation for October 2024 increased marginally to 22.1% from the 21.5% recorded in September 2024, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GSS, food and non-food inflation went up by 22.8 and 21.5% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Also, locally produced items went up to 24.6% compared to the 23.4% recorded in September while imported items saw a drop to 16.3% compared to the 17.0% recorded in October, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists, Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Annim explained that the 22.1% that has been recorded for the month of October 2024 is a 0.6 percentage point increase relative to the year on year inflation that was recorded for September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesegregating overall rate of inflation from your food and non-food perspective, we did record 22.8% for food inflation and 21.5% for non-food inflation for the month of October 2024,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that food inflation has increased by 0.7 percentage point recording 22.1% in September 2024 and increasing to 22.8% for October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNon-food inflation has also increased by 0.6 percentage point, increasing from 20.9% for the month of September 2024 to 21.5% for the month of October 2024,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Business Desk Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Samuel Annim \u00a0 Inflation for October 2024 increased marginally to 22.1% from the 21.5% recorded in September 2024, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said. 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Also, locally produced items went up to 24.6% compared to the 23.4% recorded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>October Inflation Increases To 22.1% - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/07\/october-inflation-increases-to-22-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"October Inflation Increases To 22.1% - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prof. Samuel Annim \u00a0 Inflation for October 2024 increased marginally to 22.1% from the 21.5% recorded in September 2024, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said. 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