CONSUMER PRICE INDICES AND INFLATION RATES FOR NOVEMBER 2021

The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 5.80 per cent, in November 2021. This was mainly due to an increase in prices of commodities under: food and non-alcoholic beverages (9.92%); transport (8.14%); and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (6.24%) between November 2020 and November 2021, as presented in Tables 1 and 2.

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