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Food prices have driven up the inflation rate past 9.0 per cent for the first time in eight months.
Inflation rose for a fourth consecutive month, hitting 9.13 per cent year-on-year in February. The rate was 9.32 per cent in February, 2025.
This means that a bundle of goods and services that cost an average of Tk 100 in February 2025 was priced at Tk 109.13 in February 2026, as per a bdnews24.com report.
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, February’s inflation rate is the highest since last April. The rate was 9.13 per cent at the time and fell to 9.05 per cent in May.
The rate continued to decline, eventually hitting a 39-month low of 8.17 per cent.
But prices began to heat up afterwards. In November, it rose to 8.29 per cent. By December, it was 8.49 per cent, and in January it was 8.58 per cent. Now it has leapt up past the 9.0 per cent threshold.