Egypt’s headline inflation, covering urban consumer price, decreased to 6.3 percent on an annual basis in October from an annual rate of 6.6 percent in September, CAPMAS, the country’s statistics agency, reported on Wednesday.

The decrease in headline inflation is attributed to a weaker non-food inflation, which fell to 3.7 percent year-on-year in October from 4.6 percent year-on-year in September. 

Weaker clothing and education inflation, as well as the fall in rents, were drivers for the decline in non-food inflation.