{"id":199207,"date":"2025-05-31T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zwg-annual-inflation-rate-hits-921-percent\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:52:49","slug":"zimbabwe-zwg-annual-inflation-rate-hits-921-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zwg-annual-inflation-rate-hits-921-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZWG Annual Inflation Rate Hits 92,1 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The local ZWG inflation rate has surged to 92,1% amid grave concerns by the industry for authorities to contain the rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Data published by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) this week revealed that annual inflation, which stood at 85% last month, surged by 7% in the month of May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">&#8220;The ZWG month-on-month inflation rate was 0.9 percent in May 2025, gaining 0.3 percentage points on the April 2025 rate of 0.6 percent. The ZWG year-on-year inflation rate (annual percentage change)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local ZWG inflation rate has surged to 92,1% amid grave concerns by the industry for authorities to contain the rates. Data published by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) this week revealed that annual inflation, which stood at 85% last month, surged by 7% in the month of May 2025. &#8220;The ZWG month-on-month inflation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5854,7111,6265,257,6720,7170,254,4686,421,49898],"class_list":["post-199207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-annual","tag-hits","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-rate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zwg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}