{"id":22096,"date":"2026-01-07T11:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/ghanas-inflation-slows-for-12th-straight-month-in-december\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:10","slug":"ghanas-inflation-slows-for-12th-straight-month-in-december","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghanas-inflation-slows-for-12th-straight-month-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s inflation slows for 12th straight month in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ghana&#8217;s consumer inflation slowed for the 12th consecutive month, falling to 5.4% year on year in December from 6.3% in November, the statistics service said on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Government statistician Alhassan Iddrisu told a press conference that while inflation pressures were coming down across most major components, the drop was mostly driven by a slowdown in food and non-alcoholic beverages prices.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This steady decline signals a sustained shift toward price stability and improving macroeconomic conditions,&#8221; Iddrisu said, adding that last month inflation reached its lowest level since a rebasing exercise in 2021.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Bank of Ghana targets inflation of 8%, with a tolerance band of 2% points either side. Inflation was at 23.8% in December 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The West African gold, oil and cocoa-producing nation is emerging from its most severe economic crisis in decades.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ghana&#8217;s economy expanded by 5.5% year on year in the third quarter of 2025, driven by an improvement in the agriculture and services sectors, the statistics agency said in December.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13481,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-22096","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Ghana's consumer inflation slowed for the 12th consecutive month","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25511,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22096\/revisions\/25511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}