Food prices push June inflation to 6.5%

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NCPI inflation accelerates from 5.4% in May

Sri Lanka’s consumer inflation accelerated in June, with the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) rising 6.5% year-on-year from 5.4% in May, as higher food prices added to price pressures, the Department of Census and Statistics said yesterday.

Food inflation increased to 3.3% in June from 1.5% a month earlier, while non-food inflation rose to 9.3% from 8.6%.

On a monthly basis, the NCPI increased 1.6% to 222.3 points in June from 218.8 points in May.

According to the Department, food items accounted for 1.11 percentage points of the monthly increase, while non-food items contributed 0.49 percentage points.

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food, energy and transport prices, rose to 5.0% year-on-year in June, with a monthly increase of 0.8%.