Ethiopia's inflation rate rises to 8.2 per cent in February year-on-year

March 10, 2015 | The Economic Times

ADDIS ABABA: Inflation in Ethiopia accelerated to 8.2 percent in February from year earlier due to higher prices for food items such as vegetables, fruit and meat, the statistics office said on Tuesday. 

Annual inflation in January was 7.7 percent. 

The Central Statistics Agency said food price inflation increased to 9.6 percent in February, up from 7.1 percent the previous month. The non-food inflation rate dropped to 6.8 percent last month from 8.2 percent in January. 

Inflation peaked at 9.1 percent in 2014 but remains stubbornly high.