Inflation

Food inflation fell to a 42-month low of 4.97 per cent in February, helped by easing off pressures on some items such as rice and onions in recent months, official figures showed yesterday. As a result, overall inflation dropped to a 12-month low of 5.46 per cent...

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...

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,...

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...