Nigeria’s headline inflation rises to 22.04% in March
The headline inflation rate in Nigeria in March 2023, rose to 22.04% compared to February 2023, which was 21.91%, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.
This is contained in its CPI and Inflation Report for March 2023, published on the NBS website.
It said: “Looking at the trend, the March 2023 inflation rate showed an increase of 0.13% points when compared to February 2023 headline inflation rate.
“On a year-on-year basis, the headline inflation rate was 6.13% points higher compared to the rate recorded in March 2022 which was 15.92%.”
According to the NBS, this shows that the headline inflation rate (year-on-year basis) increased in March 2023 when compared to the same month in the preceding year (i.e., March 2022).
The contributions of items on the divisional level to the increase in the headline index are:
Food & non-alcoholic beverages (11.42%); housing, water, electricity, gas & other fuel (3.69%); clothing & footwear (1.69%); transport (1.43%); furnishings, household equipment & maintenance (1.11%); education (0.87%); health (0.66%); miscellaneous goods & services (0.37%); restaurant & hotels (0.27%); alcoholic beverage, tobacco & kola (0.24%); recreation & culture (0.15%) and communication (0.15%).
NBS/Hauwa Abu
