{"id":8888,"date":"2024-11-06T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2024-11-06T13:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:45:16","slug":"inflation-for-october-2024-increases-marginally-to-22-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8888","title":{"rendered":"Inflation for October 2024 increases marginally to 22.1%."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inflation for October 2024 increased marginally to 22.1% from 21.5% recorded in September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Ghana Statistical Service, food and non-food inflation went up by 22.8 and 21.5 percent respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, locally produced items went up to 24. 6 percent compared to the 23.4 percent recorded in September. Imported items saw a drop to 16.3 percent compared to the 17.0 percent recorded in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing journalists, Government Statistician, Prof. Samuel Annim explained that the 22.1 percent 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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-709ccc82d100cf4ebee5c9456efdc1ec ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oW5pKm4NScM?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDesegregating overall rate of inflation from your food and non-food perspective, we did record 22.8 percent for food inflation and 21.5 percent for non-food inflation for the month of October 2024\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pointed out that food inflation has increased by 0.7 percentage point recording 22.1 percent in September 2024 and increasing to 22.8 percent for October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNon food inflation has also increased by 0.6 percentage point, increasing from 20.9 percent for the month of September 2024 to 21.5 percent for the month of October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation for October 2024 increased marginally to 22.1% from 21.5% recorded in September 2024. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, food and non-food inflation went up by 22.8 and 21.5 percent respectively. Also, locally produced items went up to 24. 6 percent compared to the 23.4 percent recorded in September. Imported items saw a drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[149,1053,2898],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-general-news","tag-ghana","tag-gss","tag-inflation-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8890,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions\/8890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}