Inflation for May 2024 has dropped significantly to 23.1%, down from 25.0% in April 2024.
This represents a 1.9 percentage point decrease between April and May 2024.
The Ghana Statistical Service which announced these figures said food inflation contributed to the overall drop in the rate of inflation, recording a rate of 22.6% compared to 26.8% last month.
Within the period, non-food inflation increased slightly to 23.6% in May 2024, up from 23.5% in April 2024.
Inflation for locally produced items and imported items fell to 24.7% and 19.6%, respectively.
“In this case what I want the media and policymakers to engage is not food inflation but in this case, transport where we are seeing month-on-month transport inflation of 10.5% when overall month-on-month is 3.2% and we all do appreciate how transport permits across the other items that we have in the basket for the competition.
“So the conversation that I really wish will be on the table going forward is how do we ensure that the consistent but slow increases in prices of food at other points would slow down and possibly see reduction going forward.”
Source: Myxyzonline.com
