Consumer Price Index, October 2025
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key economic statistics, is surveyed, analyzed, and made available to data users on a monthly basis. The year-on-year, general inflation rate
(annual percentage change) in the country stood at
11.7 percent for the month of October
EFY2018. A year earlier (in October EFY2016), the rate was
19.3 percent. The month on month general inflation rate increased by
2.3 percent for the month of October-
EFY2018. It was 3.6
percent in October
EFY2017.
General inflation encompasses of two main divisions and twenty-one groups of expenditures. These divisions registered the following price changes during the month of October
EFY2018 compared with October
EFY2017.
