{"id":144402,"date":"2024-09-24T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144402"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:33:46","slug":"sri-lankas-inflation-drops-in-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/09\/24\/sri-lankas-inflation-drops-in-august-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation drops in August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The overall rate of inflation, as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), has decreased to 1.1% in August 2024, compared to 2.5% in July 2024, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.lk\/WebReleases\/NCPI_August_2024\">latest data<\/a>&nbsp;released by the Department of Census and Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, food inflation has decreased to 2.3% in August 2024 compared to 2.9% in July 2024 and the Year-on-Year inflation of the non-food group increased to 0.2% in August 2024 from 2.2% in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCPI for all items for the month of August 2024 is 204.1 and it records a decrease of 2.8 in index points compared to July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The overall rate of inflation, as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), has decreased to 1.1% in August 2024, compared to 2.5% in July 2024, according to the&nbsp;latest data&nbsp;released by the Department of Census and Statistics. Meanwhile, food inflation has decreased to 2.3% in August 2024 compared to 2.9% in July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}