Ghana - Consumer Price Index - CPI August 2016

CPI Ghana August of 2016

Ghanaians CPI increased up to 16.9% year-on-year in August of 2016

The annual variation rate of the CPI in Ghana in August of 2016 was 16.9%, 2 tenths higher than the month before.The monthly variation rate of the CPI (Consumer Price Index) has been -0.6%, and thus the accumulated inflation in 2016 is 11.6%

We must highlight the increase of 0% in the prices of Health, until its interannual rate reached 14.2%, which is in contrast to the decrease in the prices of Food and non-alcoholic beverages of -1.4%, and an interannual variation of 8.5%.

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CPI (overall index) [+]

CPI Ghana August 2016

	Interannual	Accum. since January	Monthly variation
CPI (overall index) [+]	16.9%	11.6%	-0.6%
Food and non-alcoholic beverages [+]	8.5%		-1.4%
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco [+]	14.6%		-0.3%
Clothing and footwear [+]	22.8%		-0.2%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels [+]	28.1%		-0.5%
Furniture, household equipment and maintenance [+]	22.0%		0.0%
Health [+]	14.2%		0%
Transport [+]	27.4%		-0.1%
Communication [+]	12.0%		0%
Recreation and culture [+]	27.2%		0.0%
Education [+]	34.1%		0%
Restaurants and hotels [+]	15.1%		-0.3%
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Ghana: CPI annual

	2015	2014
CPI (overall index) [+]	17.7%	17.0%
Food and non-alcoholic beverages [+]	8.0%	6.8%
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco [+]	19.2%	17.4%
Clothing and footwear [+]	24.1%	20.8%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels [+]	24.3%	35.2%
Furniture, household equipment and maintenance [+]	25.8%	16.5%
Health [+]	14.7%	19.4%
Transport [+]	27.0%	30.9%
Communication [+]	14.0%	12.8%
Recreation and culture [+]	26.9%	22.8%
Education [+]	26.8%	14.3%
Restaurants and hotels [+]	18.9%	13.6%
Miscellaneous goods and services [+]	-95.0%	16.0%