Inflation

Inflation dropped to 5.02 per cent in January, the lowest in eight and a half years, on the back of the arrival of winter vegetables that contributed to the consumer price decline, official figures showed yesterday. This is the third straight month of overall...

Inflation fell 49 basis points to 5.53 per cent in July compared to a month earlier, led by the fall in food prices. July's figure is also nine basis points lower than the headline inflation in the same month of the just-concluded fiscal year,...

The general point to point inflation rate declined to 5.35 percentage point in May from 5.96 percentage point in the previous month mainly because of significant fall in prices of food commodities alongside the non-food items. The monthly consumer price index (CPI) was released by the Bangladesh...

Bangladesh’s average inflation crept up four basis points in 2019, which saw fluctuations throughout the year and a skyrocketing of the price of onion, an essential cooking ingredient. At the end of 2019, inflation stood at 5.59 percent, up from 5.55 percent a year earlier, according to...

Inflation edged up slightly in March owing to the rise in prices of non-food items although coronavirus-induced panic-buying before the country was placed on a lockdown made some food items expensive. General inflation rose by only two basis points to 5.48 per cent from 5.46 per cent...