Consumer Price Index
2nd Quarter 2009

Highlights 

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which stood at 116.1 in March 2009, registered a net increase of 1.0 point (or 0.9%) to reach 117.1 in June 2009


2. The main reasons for the overall change in the CPI from March to June 2009 were:

- higher prices of some food products of which rice, fish and meat;
- higher prices of gasoline and diesel; and
- lower interest rates on housing loan.

3. The inflation rate for financial year 2008/09 was 6.9% compared to 8.8% for financial year 2007/08.

July 2009

 

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Introduction

Table 1 - Monthly Consumer Price Index, January 2003 - June 2009

Table 2 - Main commodities that affected the CPI between March and June 2009

Table 3 : Monthly sub-indices by division of consumption expenditure, January - June 2009

Table 4 - Monthly CPI by division and group of consumption expenditure, July 2008 - June 2009

Table 5 - Inflation rate (%), 1990 - 2009

Annex

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