LONDON: Consumer price inflation in Ivory Coast fell to 0.3 percent year-on-year in January, down from 1.3 percent in December, data from the National Statistics Institute showed on Thursday.
The monthly report showed that food and soft drink prices rose 2 percent but housing and utility prices dropped 0.7 percent and transport costs declined 0.7 percent. Healthcare prices slipped 0.4 percent and communications costs fell 0.1 percent. The economy of the world’s top cocoa grower makes up around 40 percent of the eight-nation West African CFA franc currency zone.
