{"id":1432,"date":"2025-10-02T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:31:13","slug":"ghana-records-lowest-inflation-in-4-years-as-september-figure-drops-sharply-to-9-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/ghana-records-lowest-inflation-in-4-years-as-september-figure-drops-sharply-to-9-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana records lowest Inflation in 4 years as September figure drops sharply to 9.4%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The year on year Inflation for September has dropped significantly to 9.4 percent from 11.5 percent in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the lowest since August 2021 and the ninth consecutive decline. This also the first time in four years inflation has declined to single digit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data published by the Ghana Statistical Service, the decline shows a sustained shift in prices that signals Ghana is firmly on the path to macroeconomic stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government Statistician, Dr. Alhassan Iddrisu, noted that the development shows that the pressures driving inflation over the past months are declining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food inflation declined to 11.0 percent in September from 14.8% in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, non-food inflation fell to 8.2 percent in September 2025 from 8.7 percent in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation for locally produced items was 10.1 percent in September from 12.2 percent in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imported items recorded 7.4 percent for September in inflation from 9.5 percent in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regional Inflation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the regions, the North East Region registered the highest inflation at a striking rate of 20.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is more than double the national average of 9.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bono East Region however recorded the lowest inflation at 1.2 %.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year on year Inflation for September has dropped significantly to 9.4 percent from 11.5 percent in August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[1109,1108,1107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}