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Nigeria’s inflation rate rises to 31.70% in February 2024

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Nigeria’s inflation rate rises to 31.70% in February 2024

In February 2024, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 31.70%, up from 29.90% in January 2024, marking an increase of 1.80%.

Comparatively, on an annual basis, February 2024’s inflation rate was 9.79% higher than the 21.91% recorded in February 2023. 

Additionally, the month-on-month headline inflation rate in February 2024 reached 3.12%, an increase of 0.48% from January 2024’s rate of 2.64%.

This indicates that the pace at which average prices rose in February 2024 exceeded the rate of price increase in January 2024. 

Food Inflation  

Food inflation climbed to 37.92% on the back of higher average prices of items like bread and cereals, potatoes, yams and other tubers, fish, coffee, tea, and cocoa.

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This represented a 13.57% increase from the 24.35% food inflation rate recorded in February 2023. 

In the month-to-month analysis, February 2024’s food inflation rate was 3.79%, showing a 0.58% rise from January 2024’s rate of 3.21%.

The increase in month-to-month food inflation was driven by the accelerated price growth of bread and cereals, potatoes, yams and other tubers, fish, coffee, tea, and cocoa. 

Core Inflation  

Core inflation, which omits the costs of volatile agricultural products and energy, was 25.13% in February 2024, showing a 6.76% increase from the 18.37% noted in February 2023.

Notable price rises were seen in passenger road transport, housing rentals (actual and imputed), medical services, and pharmaceutical products. 

Month-on-month, the core inflation rate decreased slightly to 2.17% in February 2024 from 2.24% in January 2024, a drop of 0.07%.

The average annual inflation rate over the previous twelve months reached 21.72% as of February 2024, which is 4.97 percentage points higher than the 16.75% seen in February 2023. 

Urban Inflation 

In February 2024, the urban inflation rate on a year-on-year basis reached 33.66%, an increase of 10.87 percentage points from the 22.78% observed in February 2023.

Month-on-month, the urban inflation rate in February 2024 was 3.17%, which is 0.45 percentage points higher than the 2.72% recorded in January 2024.  

The average urban inflation rate over the preceding twelve months was 27.93% in February 2024, marking a 7.48 percentage points rise from the 20.45% noted in February 2023. 

Rural Inflation 

In February 2024, the rural inflation rate stood at 29.99% on a year-on-year basis, an increase of 8.89 percentage points from 21.10% in February 2023.

Month-on-month, the rural inflation rate was 3.07% in February 2024, 0.50 percentage points higher than the 2.57% seen in January 2024.

Over the previous twelve months, the average rural inflation rate as of February 2024 was 24.61%, which is 5.28 percentage points above the 19.33% recorded in February 2023. 

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