The overall year on year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 9.6 per cent, in October 2022. As presented in Tables 1 and 2, the rise in inflation was largely due to increase in prices of commodities under food and non-alcoholic beverages (15.8%); transport (11.6%) and housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (7.1%) between October 2021 and October 2022. Read More
