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Investing.com -- Sri Lanka’s consumer prices increased 2.1% year-on-year in September, accelerating from the 1.5% rise recorded in August, according to data released by the statistics department on Tuesday.
The National Consumer Price Index, which measures broad retail price inflation across the country, showed that food prices were a significant driver of the overall increase. The annual inflation rate in the food category climbed to 3.8% in September, up from 2.9% in August.
In the non-food category, prices rose at a more modest pace of 0.7% year-on-year in September, slightly higher than the 0.4% increase reported in August.
The consumer price data is typically published with a lag of about three weeks every month.
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