<span style="color: #222222;">In Sri Lanka, headline inflation based on the National Consumer Price Index remains high at 59.2 percent for the month of December 2022.<br />''<br />''Sri Lanka's Department of Census and Statistics reported that the inflation eased from 65 percent in November 2022. Meanwhile, Food inflation showed a marked decrease by over 10 percentage points to 59.3 percent.<br />''<br />''The national consumer basket includes 407 items which represent the consumption expenditure of all households in the island nation.<br />''<br />''Sri Lanka has been fighting runaway inflation since last year amidst its worst-ever economic crisis since its independence.</span><br />