Food price: Cost of healthy diet drops – NBS …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
The National Bureau of Statistics has said the cost of a Healthy Diet declined on a Month-on-month basis to N1,255 per day in August 2024 from N1,265 in July amid high prices of food.
NBS disclosed this in its recent Cost of a Healthy Diet, CoHD data released on its official website.
According to NBS, this represents a slight 0.8 percent decline compared to N1,265 recorded in July this year.
NBS said, “This is a lower bound (or floor) of the cost per adult per day excluding the cost of transportation and meal preparation.”
On a zonal level analysis, the average CoHD was highest in…
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