Consumer inflation further increased to 31.7 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) in July 2022, on the back of persistent price pressures from transport, data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) have shown. This represents a 1.9 percentage point rise from 29.8 percent recorded in the previous month. Persistently increasing food, petroleum and transport...
The decline in headline inflation for January to 10.3 percent is likely to push the central bank to continue its reduction in the monetary policy rate, Barclays Africa has said. According to a release by the research arm of the bank, “the deceleration in inflation will have been positively received...
Consumer inflation rose to 42.50 percent in June 2023 from 42.2 percent the previous month, in line with expectations. The rise, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) said, is attributed to renewed price risks stemming from the implementation of revenue and utility tariff measures in May of this year. It was driven primarily...
Data from Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) show there has been a substantial drop in Producer Price Inflation (PPI) - from 78.1 percent in November 2022 to 52.2 percent in December 2022. This represents a 25.9 percentage point decrease in producer inflation relative to the rate recorded in the previous month....
The general price levels of goods and services, according to Ghana Statistical Service, have further increased in the month of May - following price hikes by traders due to the coronavirus pandemic effects. General prices increased by 0.7 of a percentage point over the previous month, as it recorded 11.3...
Consumer inflation has further declined to 52.8 percent in February 2023 from 53.6 percent the previous month, easing price pressures since January 2023. Inflation peaked around 54.1 percent in December, 2022, accelerating for 19 consecutive months, according to data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). The February 2023 inflation declined...
In a surprising turn of events, the headline inflation rate has dipped from 43.1 percent in July 2023 to 40.1 percent in August - defying market expectations. The Ghana Statistical Service’s (GSS) latest data indicate that the decline can largely be attributed to a decrease in food inflation - a...
The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) rate has recorded a marginal decrease of 0.8 percentage points as the ex-factory prices of goods and services hit 12.8 percent in December 2021, recently-released provisional data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has shown. The figure represents year-on-year rate of change from December 2020...