{"id":9923,"date":"2023-02-27T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T05:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/?post_type=statistique&#038;p=9923"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:04:13","slug":"english-inflation-trends-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"statistique","link":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/statistique\/english-inflation-trends-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation trends in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inflationary pressures persist and spread to all cities<br \/>\nThe general price level increased by 6.3% in 2022, after 2.3% in 2021, 2.5% in 2020, 2.5% in 2019, 1.1% in 2018 and 0.6% in 2017. This is the highest inflation rate after 9.0% in 1995. In 2022, the community threshold of 3% was exceeded in all cities, namely: Ngaoundere (+7.4% after +1.0% in 2021), Bafoussam (+7.3% after 2.4% in 2021) , Buea (+7.1% after +1.7% in 2021), Bamenda (+6.8% after +3.8% in 2021), Maroua (+6.4% after +3.2% in 2021 ), Yaounde (+6.2% after +1.8% in 2021), Douala (+5.7% after +1.9% in 2021), Bertoua (+5.5% after 4.4% in 2021 ), Ebolowa (+5.7% after +3.7% in 2021) and Garoua (+5.4% after +2.1% in 2021).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inflation feeds on soaring food prices<br \/>\nIn 2022, the general price level was largely supported by the 12.9% increase in food product prices and 6.3% increase in restaurant and hotel service prices. The main increases in food prices concerned oils and fats (27.0%), breads and cereals (16.3%), fishes and seafood (14.4%), meats (12. 2%), milk, cheese and eggs (10.7%) and vegetables (7.6%). The increase in prices for restaurants and hotels was mainly due to the 10.1% increase in the price of restaurant services. In addition, certain building materials usually used by households for their minor construction or rehabilitation\/repair work were subject to soaring prices. These include cement, sheet metal, PVC pipes, wall tiles and rebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":[583],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"annee":[],"region":[],"domaines":[],"class_list":["post-9923","statistique","type-statistique","status-publish","hentry","format-donnees-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/statistique"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16355,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique\/9923\/revisions\/16355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"annee","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/annee?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"domaine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/domaines?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}