{"id":58,"date":"2026-09-30T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/sri-lanka-inflation-breaches-cbs-upper-limit-for-third-month-in-sept-remains-at-37-mo-high\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:50:29","slug":"sri-lanka-inflation-breaches-cbs-upper-limit-for-third-month-in-sept-remains-at-37-mo-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/sri-lanka-inflation-breaches-cbs-upper-limit-for-third-month-in-sept-remains-at-37-mo-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka inflation breaches CB\u2019s upper limit for third month in Sept; remains at 37-mo high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s overall rate of inflation, as measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), rose to more than three-year high of 8.0 percent in September 2026, steady from previous month, breaching the Central Bank\u2019s upper inflation target rate of 7 percent for the third month, data from the state statistics office showed.<\/p>\n<p>The CCPI for all items in September 2026 stood at 209.1, recording an increase of 0.3 index points or 0.1 percent compared to 208.8 in August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis represents an increase in expenditure value of Rs.358.48 in the market basket,\u201d the Department of Census and Statistics said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The island nation\u2019s economy witnessed upward price adjustments after the government raised fuel prices by nearly 50 percent following a supply shortage due to Middle East escalation, amid higher global oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year food inflation accelerated to 8.7 percent in September 2026, its highest since May 2023 and rising from 8.5 percent in August 2026, contributing mainly to the increase in headline inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Non-food inflation, year on year, rose to 7.7 percent in September 2026, steady as in the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Core inflation, year on year, accelerated to 5.4 in September 2026 from 5.1% in the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank kept its Overnight Policy Rate steady in its latest monetary policy meeting on Wednesday and said inflation expected be higher single digit through the first quarter of 2027 and ease to 5 percent thereafter. (Colombo\/September 30\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s overall rate of inflation, as measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), rose to more than three-year high of 8.0 percent in September 2026, steady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}