Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-April 2005
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CPI and Inflation Rates
April
2005
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 2.7 per cent from 178.6 points in March 2005 to 183.4 points in April 2005. The month-on-month overall inflation rate rose from 14.1 per cent in March 2005 to 16.0 per cent in April 2005. During the same period, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also rose from 7.3 per cent to 8.0 per cent.