{"id":51608,"date":"2024-10-10T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-inflation-rises-by-2-5-in-september\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:35:01","slug":"rwanda-s-inflation-rises-by-2-5-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-inflation-rises-by-2-5-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s inflation rises by 2.5% in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to NISR, the CPI for September 2024 increased by 1.2 percent compared to August 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Prices for &#8216;Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages&#8217; decreased by 4.5% on an annual basis, but saw a monthly increase of 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas, and Other Fuels&#8217; category also recorded a 4% increase year-on-year, with a slight monthly rise of 0.1%. Transportation costs surged by 18.2% annually, with a modest monthly increase of 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the data show that prices for &#8220;local products&#8221; rose by 1.3% year-on-year and 1.5% month-on-month. Meanwhile, &#8220;imported products&#8221; saw a 6.3% increase annually and a 0.4% rise on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Prices for &#8220;fresh products&#8221; decreased by 4.3% year-on-year but experienced a significant monthly increase of 4.7%. In contrast, &#8220;energy&#8221; prices increased by 2.7% annually but dropped by 1.5% month-on-month.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding fresh products and energy, the general index increased by 5% on an annual basis and 0.4% on a monthly basis, highlighting the broader inflationary pressure in the economy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75728\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton47595-48900.jpg\" alt=\"NISR has reported that consumer prices increased by 2.5% year-on-year in September 2024. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has reported that the country\u2019s Consumer Price Index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, increased by 2.5% year-on-year in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000075727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51608","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":2000075727,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/49686089673_216bea0a00_b-b2d43-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608","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=51608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51608"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51608"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}