March 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's National Consumer Price
Index (NCPI) rose 53.6% year-on-year in February,
after a 53.2% rise in January, the statistics department said on
Tuesday.
The NCPI captures broader retail price inflation across the
island nation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month.
The Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) ,
released at the end of each month, eased to 50.6% in February,
data showed.
(Reporting by Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru, Editing by Louise
Heavens)
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