During the month of June 2022, the Eastern Region recorded the highest inflation rate among all the regions, the Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Annim has announced.

The Upper East recorded the lowest.

“From the regional perspective we identified the Eastern Region recording the highest rate of inflation of 35.8 per cent and the Upper East Region the least inflation of 21 per cent,” he said at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday July 13.

With that national rate, inflation for June went up to the 29.8 per cent from the 27.6 per cent recorded in May same year, Professor Annim further indicated.

“For the food and non flood inflation perspective, food inflation recorded 30.7 per cent for the month of June 2022 and non-food recording inflation rate of 29.1 per cent,” he said.