The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 8.3 per cent, in July 2022. As presented in Tables 1 and 2, the rise in inflation was mainly due to increase in prices of commodities under food and non-alcoholic beverages (15.3 per cent); transport (7.0 per cent) and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (5.6 per cent) between July 2021 and July 2022. Read More
