{"id":48639,"date":"2023-08-10T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-inflation-rises-by-11-9-percent\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:30:34","slug":"rwanda-s-inflation-rises-by-11-9-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-inflation-rises-by-11-9-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda&#8217;s inflation rises by 11.9 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the figures released today, \u2018Food and non-alcoholic beverages\u2019 saw a 22.8 percent increase on an annual basis and a marginal 0.1 percent increase on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and narcotics\u2019 rose by 14.3 percent on an annual basis and dropped by 2.3 percent on a monthly basis. Transport experienced a 5.8 percent annual increase and a 1.5 percent monthly increase.<\/p>\n<p>The data also indicate that \u201clocal products\u201d had a 13 percent increase on an annual basis and a slight 0.4 percent decrease on a monthly basis, while the prices of \u201cimported products\u201d went up by 8.4 percent annually and by 1.4 percent on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of \u201cfresh products\u201d surged by 27.4 percent on an annual basis but decreased by 1.4 percent on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Among other categories, the prices of \u201cenergy\u201d showed a 3.8 percent annual increase and a 2.2 percent decrease on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the \u201cgeneral Index excluding fresh products and energy\u201d rose by 8.5 percent on an annual basis and increased by 0.7 percent on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-58884\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s Consumer Price Index (CPI), the primary measure of inflation, experienced an 11.9 percent year-on-year increase in July 2023, down from 13.7 percent in June 2023, as reported by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000058883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","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":{"id":2000058883,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6482fa6f-0e25-48d0-a551-9e0dc97b6719.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639","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=48639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000058883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48639"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48639"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}