Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-December 2004
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CPI and Inflation Rates
December
2004
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.3 per cent from 171.6 points in November 2004 to 172.2 points in December 2004. However, month-onmonth overall inflation rate declined from 16.6 per cent in November 2004 to 16.3 per cent in December 2004. During the same period month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket increased marginally from 10.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent.