{"id":145121,"date":"2024-10-21T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145121"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T22:22:37","slug":"sri-lankas-inflation-drops-to-0-2-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/21\/sri-lankas-inflation-drops-to-0-2-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s inflation drops to -0.2% in September"},"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 -0.2% in September 2024 from 1.1% in August 2024, according to the latest data released by&nbsp; the Department of Census and Statistics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, food inflation also decreased to 0.5% in September, down from 2.3% in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCPI for all items for the month of September 2024 is 203.1 and it records a decrease of 1.0 in index points compared to August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCPI for all items for the months of September 2024 is 203.1. A decrease of 1.0 index points or 0.48 percentage compared to August 2024 for which the index was 204.1. This decrease represents a decrease in expenditure value of Rs. 500.25 in the market basket\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall rate of inflation as measured by the NCPI on a Year-over Year basis was -0.2% in September 2024 and inflation calculated for the August 2024 was 1.1%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a monthly basis, the Year-on-Year inflation of the food group decreased to 0.5% in September 2024 from 2.3% in August 2024 and the Year-on-Year inflation of the non-food group decreased to -0.7% in September 2024 from 0.2% in August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a Year-on-Year basis, contribution of food commodities to inflation was 0.22 percent in September 2024 compared to the month of September 2023, the report said.<\/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 -0.2% in September 2024 from 1.1% in August 2024, according to the latest data released by&nbsp; the Department of Census and Statistics.&nbsp; Meanwhile, food inflation also decreased to 0.5% in September, down from 2.3% in August. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145121","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=145121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}