{"id":3673,"date":"2022-01-12T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:51:52","slug":"2021-ended-with-a-12-6-inflation-rate-gss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=3673","title":{"rendered":"2021 ended with a 12.6% inflation rate \u2013 GSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The national year-on-year inflation rate was 12.6% in December 2021, which is 0.4 percentage points higher than the 12.2% recorded in November 2021, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Month-on-month (November 2021 \u2013 December 2021) inflation was 1.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gap between food and non-food items has reduced to a 0.3 percentage point difference; that is 12.8% versus 12.5%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was parity in the month-on-month food and non-food inflation this month (1.2% vs1.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Housing and transport, which include fuel, recorded the highest inflation rates of 20.7% and 17.6%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contribution of food and non-alcoholic beverages to the overall inflation saw a marginal decline from 47.7% in November to 45.2% in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation for locally produced items continues to dominate imported items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS.jpg 640w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS-496x330.jpg 496w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSS-370x246.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The inflation rate for the Upper West region remains high with the Eastern region recording the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ashanti region has overtaken the Northern region as the second highest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government Statistician Professor Samuel Kobina Annim said \u201cfor the sixth month in a row, year-on-year consumer inflation has consistently increased, going up by 4.8 percentage points between June 2021 (7.8%) and December 2021 (12.6%)\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national year-on-year inflation rate was 12.6% in December 2021, which is 0.4 percentage points higher than the 12.2% recorded in November 2021, the Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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