Food inflation for February drops to 28.1% – GSS announces

Overall food inflation for February was 28.1%, down from 28.3% in January, representing a month-on-month drop of 1.8%, Government Statistician, Prof Samuel Kobina Anim has announced.

Food items that recorded price increases included vegetables, tubers, cooking bananas, and pulses (28.1%), ready-made food and other food products (45.5%), cereals and cereal products (38.6%), and fish and seafood (26.5%), among others.

Non-food inflation for February stood at 18.8%, down from 19.2%, representing a month-on-month decline of 0.9%.

On a regional basis, the Upper West Region recorded the highest food inflation at 49.8% and the second-highest non-food inflation at 24.0%. This was followed by the Savannah Region, which recorded a food inflation rate of 48.6% in February 2025, Prof Samuel Kobina Anim, Annim said while addressing journalists on Wednesday, March 5.

He further indicated that inflation for February 2025 has reduced marginally to 23.1 percent from the 23.5 per cent recorded in January this year.

This drop recorded was significantly influenced by a reduction in food inflation by 1.8 percent.

“In the last four months, you’ve seen consistent decline in food inflation on a month on month basis, declining by 2.0 percentage points between November 2024 and February 2025,”

He explained that the annual inflation rate in February was the third-highest recorded in the last 10 months.

 

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