The increase makes it the highest inflation recorded for the period since May 2020 on the back of rising petroleum prices which impacts the cost of goods and services.
The GSS in its latest bulletin for October 2021 explained that other factors which contributed to the sharp increase were due to hikes in the price of water, housing, electricity, gas and transport.
Meanwhile, the contribution of food inflation to the overall year-on-year inflation witnessed a slow down for the period while the national month-on-month inflation between September 2021 and October 2021 was 0.6 percent.
“Food inflation was 11.0 percent, lower than that of last month (11.5 percent), whilst non-food inflation was also 11 percent, higher than September’s 9.9 percent,” the GSS said.
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