{"id":47516,"date":"2023-02-11T06:47:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-inflation-increases-by-20-7-percent\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T13:32:18","slug":"rwanda-s-inflation-increases-by-20-7-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-inflation-increases-by-20-7-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda&#8217;s inflation increases by 20.7 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban CPI is considered as the headline index for monetary policy purposes. In addition, select detailed item indices are published for items judged to be important or experiencing extreme price movement.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2023, reads the report released yesterday, food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 41 percent on annual basis and increased by 2.7 percent on monthly basis. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels\u2019 increased by 8.3 percent on annual basis and increased by 0.1 percent on monthly basis. Transport increased by 12.6 percent on annual basis and increased by 0.5 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The data also show the \u201clocal products\u201d increased by 21.4 percent on annual change and increased by 1.4 percent on monthly basis, while prices of the \u201cimported products\u201d increased by 18.5 percent on annual basis and increased by 0.8 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cfresh products\u201d increased by 44.6 percent on annual change and increased by 3.6 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cenergy\u201d increased by 18.2 percent on annual change and increased by 0.2 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cgeneral Index excluding fresh products and energy\u201d increased by 15.2 percent on annual change and increased by 0.7 percent on monthly basis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-46133 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/food-3-2d010.jpg\" alt=\"NISR has revealed that consumer prices increased by 20.7% in January 2023. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has announced that Rwanda\u2019s Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation increased by 20.7 percent year on year in January 2023 down from 21.6 percent in December 2022.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47516"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47516"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}