{"id":23409,"date":"2022-06-14T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23409"},"modified":"2022-06-14T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:44:48","slug":"here-are-the-15-items-driving-inflation-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/14\/here-are-the-15-items-driving-inflation-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are The 15 Items Driving Inflation In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Statistical Service last week announced that inflation had jumped to 27.6% in May 2022 from 23.6% recorded in April.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of this development are varied and largely driven by local products.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Statistical Service show that 56.2% of the products accounting for the rise in inflation are food and non-food products locally produced, while 43.8% are imported.<\/p>\n<p>The major drivers based on the year-on-year figures show that grapes, which is imported, saw a 100.8% inflation followed by diesel, 81.1%, also imported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Firewood saw 73.7% year-on-year inflation.<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of the top 15 drivers of inflation below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-859503\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation-750x612.jpg 750w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/15-items-driving-inflation-1140x930.jpg 1140w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"979\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>citinewsroom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Statistical Service last week announced that inflation had jumped to 27.6% in May 2022 from 23.6% recorded in April. The drivers of this development are varied and largely driven by local products. Data from the Statistical Service show that 56.2% of the products accounting for the rise in inflation are food and non-food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[7396,10380,5927,6496,192,13328,6546],"class_list":["post-23409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-data","tag-diesel","tag-drivers","tag-food","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-statistical-service","tag-inflation"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}