Ghana’s year-on-year producer price inflation eased significantly to 3.5 percent in June 2026, a sharp decline from the 5.8 percent in recorded earlier in May 2026.
This 2.3 percentage point decline in a single month is according to the June 2026 Producer Price Index released by the Ghana Statistical Service.
On a month-on-month basis, producer prices fell by 3.7 percent when comparing June with May 2026 .
The data from GSS revealed that the broad easing was driven largely by the Mining and Quarrying sub-sector, the largest component of the Producer Price Index, constituting 43.7 percent of the entire index.
The sub-sector’s year-on-year rate fell sharply from 11.0 percent in May to 2.6 percent in June 2026.
Despite the overall easing, several sectors continued to record elevated year-on-year producer price increases in June 2026 with Electricity and Gas recording 12.5 percent, Accommodation and Food 10.8 percent, Water Supply 10.3 percent, and Transport and Storage 10.0 percent.
The Manufacturing Sector also recorded an uptick rising from 0.8 percent to 3.5 percent year-on-year.
Accroding the GSS,this figures call for a coordinated action to ensure stability.
Businesses were urged to continue improving productivity and energy efficiency and to secure key inputs while prices remain soft whiles
government was tasked with sustaining macroeconomic stability.
Households alike were also advised to plan for mixed signals at the shops in the near term.
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