{"id":746221,"date":"2026-08-22T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746221\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:04:32","slug":"sri-lankas-inflation-rises-to-7-2-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746221\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation rises to 7.2% in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fksal\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Sri%20Lanka%E2%80%99s%20inflation%20rises%20to%207.2%25%20in%20July&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fksal\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Sri%20Lanka%E2%80%99s%20inflation%20rises%20to%207.2%25%20in%20July%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Fksal\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-251294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/inflation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"335\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation rate increased in July, according to the Consumer Price Index and monthly consumer inflation data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Department of Census and Statistics said inflation, which stood at 6.5% in June, increased to 7.2% in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Meanwhile, inflation in the food category increased to 4.9% in July from 3.3% in June.<\/p>\n<p>However, inflation in the non-food category declined slightly to 9.2% in July from 9.3% in June, the Department of Census and Statistics said. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation rate increased in July, according to the Consumer Price Index and monthly consumer inflation data.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-746221","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\/746221","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=746221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}