New Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the National Bureau of Statistics have shown that the headline inflation rate rose to 21.82 percent in January 2023, compared to 21.34 percent in December 2022.

The statistics bureau said the January 2023 inflation rate showed an increase of 0.47 percent points when compared to December 2022 inflation rate.

However, on a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation rate was 6.22 percent points higher compared to the rate recorded in January 2022, which was 15.60 percent.

This shows that the headline inflation rate (year-on-year basis) increased in the month of January 2023 when compared to the same month in the preceding year (i.e., January 2022).

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The contributions of items on a class basis to the increase in the headline index are: bread and cereal (21.67 percent), actual and imputed rent (7.74 percent), potatoes, yam and tuber (6.06 percent), vegetables (5.44 percent), and meat (4.78 percent).

On a month-on-month basis, the percentage change in the All-Items Index in January 2023 was 1.87 percent, which was 0.15 percent points higher than the rate recorded in December 2022 (1.71 percent).

This means that in the month of January 2023, on average, the general price level was 0.15 percent higher relative to December 2022.

The percentage change in the average CPI for the twelve months period ending January 2023 over the average of the CPI for the previous twelve months period was 19.36 percent, showing a 2.49 percent increase compared to 16.87 percent recorded in January 2022.