The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 7.9 per cent, in April 2023. As presented in Tables 1 and 2, the increase in inflation was largely due to increase in prices of commodities under Food and Non-alcoholic Beverages (10.1%); and Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and other fuels (9.6%); and Transport (9.8%) between April 2022 and April 2023. Read More
