CONSUMER PRICE INDICES AND INFLATION RATES FOR SEPTEMBER 2021

The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 6.91 per cent, in September 2021. This was mainly driven by rise in prices of commodities under: food and non-alcoholic beverages (10.63 per cent); transport (9.21 per cent); and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (6.08 per cent) between September 2020 and September 2021, as presented in Tables 1 and 2.

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