{"id":209747,"date":"2025-10-13T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inflation-falls-below-10-percent-for-first-time-since-2021\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:59:23","slug":"ghana-inflation-falls-below-10-percent-for-first-time-since-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inflation-falls-below-10-percent-for-first-time-since-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Inflation Falls Below 10 Percent for First Time Since 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s inflation slowed to 9.4% in September, marking its ninth consecutive monthly decline and the first single-digit reading since August 2021<\/li>\n<li>The rate now sits within the Bank of Ghana&#8217;s medium-term target band of 8% \u00b12%, reaching the end-2025 target three months ahead of schedule<\/li>\n<li>Food inflation decreased to 11% from 14.8%, while the rate of imported goods slowed to 7.4% and services to 4.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Ghana&#8217;s inflation slowed to 9.4% in September, marking its ninth consecutive monthly decline&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510130470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Ghana&#8217;s inflation slowed to 9.4% in September, marking its ninth consecutive monthly decline and the first single-digit reading since August 2021 The rate now sits within the Bank of Ghana&#8217;s medium-term target band of 8% \u00b12%, reaching the end-2025 target three months ahead of schedule Food inflation decreased to 11% from 14.8%, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7668,4508,4509,6265,257,6720,254,6599],"class_list":["post-209747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-falls","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209747","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}