{"id":173266,"date":"2025-10-01T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:14:09","slug":"ghana-records-single-digit-inflation-for-first-time-since-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173266\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana records single digit inflation for first time since August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ghana-records-single-digit-inflation-for-first-time-since-August-2021-2003119?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/74748092.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana's consumer price inflation extended its nine-month decline\" title=\"Ghana's consumer price inflation extended its nine-month decline\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/> <\/a>Ghana&#8217;s consumer price inflation extended its nine-month decline<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghana\u2019s consumer price inflation extended its nine-month decline, hitting single digits for the first time in four months at 9.4% in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the lowest rate since August 2021 and the ninth consecutive monthly drop.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the slowdown was largely driven by an easing in food prices, with food inflation falling to 11% in September from 14.8% in August.<\/p>\n<p>The year-on-year rate eased to 9.4% in September 2025, down from 11.5% in August.<\/p>\n<p>Non-food inflation also edged down, declining to 8.2% from 8.7% in August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Ghana-s-inflation-drops-for-8th-straight-month-1999026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana&#8217;s inflation drops for 8th straight month<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inflation for locally produced items slowed to 10.1% in September from 12.2% in August 2025, while imported items recorded 7.4% in September, down from 9.5% in August.<\/p>\n<p>SP\/MA<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest edition of BizTech below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s consumer price inflation extended its nine-month decline Ghana\u2019s consumer price inflation extended its nine-month decline, hitting single&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-173266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}