CPI declines to one-year low of 5.72% in December

13 Jan 2023 Evaluate

With softening prices of food items, India’s retail inflation or consumer price index (CPI) declined to a one-year low of 5.72 per cent in December 2022. The CPI was at 5.88 per cent in November 2022 and 5.66 per cent in December 2021. With this, the headline inflation number remained below the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) medium-term target of 2-6% for the second straight month. Retail inflation is on a downward trajectory since October. The food inflation rate fell to 4.19 per cent in December, from 4.67 per cent in November.

The National Statistical Office (NSO) under Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in its data has showed that Rural CPI (General) in December 2022 stood at 6.05 per cent as against 6.09 per cent in November. The Urban CPI (General) stood at 5.39 per cent in December as against 5.68 per cent in November. The index value for Rural, Urban and Combined CPI (General) stood at 177.1, 174.1 and 175.7 respectively, in December 2022.

Inflation in the food basket was at 4.19 per cent in December as against 4.67 per cent in November. Inflation rate for vegetables contracted by 15.08 per cent against a contraction of 8.08 per cent last month. Meanwhile, inflation rate for fuel and light increased mildly to 10.97 per cent against 10.62 per cent in the preceding month. Inflation rate for cereals came in at 13.79 per cent as against 12.96 per cent in November.

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