Cost of food in India decreased 1.06 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - India Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Cost of food in the United States increased 3 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Belgium NBB Forecast: HICP: YoY: Food Inflation data was reported at 2.000 % in 2026. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.000 % for 2025. Belgium NBB Forecast: HICP: YoY: Food Inflation data is updated yearly, averaging 2.650 % from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2026, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.000 % in 2023 and a record low of 0.900 % in 2021. Belgium NBB Forecast: HICP: YoY: Food Inflation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Bank of Belgium. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Belgium – Table BE.I006: Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: Year on Year Growth: Forecast: National Bank of Belgium.

Cost of food in Canada increased 2.90 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Canada Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Cost of food in Ireland increased 4.60 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Ireland Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

In 2023, the U.S. Consumer Price Index was 309.42, and is projected to increase to 352.27 by 2029. The base period was 1982-84. The monthly CPI for all urban consumers in the U.S. can be accessed here. After a time of high inflation, the U.S. inflation rateis projected fall to two percent by 2027. United States Consumer Price Index ForecastIt is projected that the CPI will continue to rise year over year, reaching 325.6 in 2027. The Consumer Price Index of all urban consumers in previous years was lower, and has risen every year since 1992, except in 2009, when the CPI went from 215.30 in 2008 to 214.54 in 2009. The monthly unadjusted Consumer Price Index was 296.17 for the month of August in 2022. The U.S. CPI measures changes in the price of consumer goods and services purchased by households and is thought to reflect inflation in the U.S. as well as the health of the economy. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the CPI and defines it as, "a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services." The BLS records the price of thousands of goods and services month by month. They consider goods and services within eight main categories: food and beverage, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education, and other goods and services. They aggregate the data collected in order to compare how much it would cost a consumer to buy the same market basket of goods and services within one month or one year compared with the previous month or year. Given that the CPI is used to calculate U.S. inflation, the CPI influences the annual adjustments of many financial institutions in the United States, both private and public. Wages, social security payments, and pensions are all affected by the CPI.

In 2024, the annual inflation rate for the United Kingdom was 2.5 percent, with the average rate for 2025 predicted to rise to 3.2 percent, revised upwards from an earlier prediction of 2.6 percent. The UK has only recently recovered from a period of elevated inflation, which saw the CPI rate reach 9.1 percent in 2022, and 7.3 percent in 2023. Despite an uptick in inflation expected in 2025, the inflation rate is expected to fall to 2.1 percent in 2026, and two percent between 2027 and 2029. UK inflation crisis Between 2021 and 2023, inflation surged in the UK, reaching a 41-year-high of 11.1 percent in October 2022. Although inflation fell to more usual levels by 2024, prices in the UK had already increased by over 20 percent relative to the start of the crisis. The two main drivers of price increases during this time were food and energy inflation, two of the main spending areas of UK households. Although food and energy prices came down quite sharply in 2023, underlying core inflation, which measures prices rises without food and energy, remained slightly above the headline inflation rate throughout 2024, suggesting some aspects of inflation had become embedded in the UK economy. Inflation rises across in the world in 2022 The UK was not alone in suffering from runaway inflation over the last few years. From late 2021 onwards, various factors converged to encourage a global acceleration of prices, leading to the ongoing inflation crisis. Blocked-up supply chains were one of the main factors as the world emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. This was followed by energy and food inflation skyrocketing after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Central bank interest rates were raised globally in response to the problem, possibly putting an end to the era of cheap money that has defined monetary policy since the financial crash of 2008.

When surveyed in March 2025, some ** percent of respondents in Italy stated that they expected grocery prices to increase. This figure has decreased from the peak of ** percent in June 2022. The lowest figure was recorded in September 2021, when about half of the respondents expected an increase in food prices.

Belgium NBB Forecast: HICP: YoY: Core Inflation: excl Food & Energy data was reported at 1.600 % in 2026. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.900 % for 2025. Belgium NBB Forecast: HICP: YoY: Core Inflation: excl Food & Energy data is updated yearly, averaging 1.550 % from Dec 2017 (Median) to 2026, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.200 % in 2023 and a record low of 1.300 % in 2021. Belgium NBB Forecast: HICP: YoY: Core Inflation: excl Food & Energy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Bank of Belgium. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Belgium – Table BE.I006: Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: Year on Year Growth: Forecast: National Bank of Belgium.

After reaching a peak of 10.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022, the CPI inflation rate in the United Kingdom has fallen considerably, and was 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. In 2025, there is expected to be an uptick in inflation, with prices expected to be increasing by 3.7 percent in the third quarter of 2025, before falling to two percent by the second quarter of 2026. Inflation and the Cost of Living The high inflation experienced by the UK since late 2021 is one of the main factors behind the country's ongoing cost of living crisis. Price surges, in relation to food and energy costs in particular, played havoc with the finances of UK households. At the height of the crisis, around nine out of ten households were experiencing a cost of living increase compared to the previous month. Although inflation has eased since reaching a peak of 11.1 percent in October 2022, and wages are growing in real terms, approximately 59 percent of households were still experiencing rising costs relative to the previous month in March 2025. Economic growth downgraded for 2025 Since 2022, the economy has generally been the main issue for UK voters, seen by 51 percent of people as one of the top three issues facing the country in March 2025. Throughout this time, UK households have struggled through a cost of living crisis, while the wider economy has struggled to achieve consistent growth. Between the first quarter of 2022, the UK economy has alternated between periods of low growth and minor contractions, with the UK even in recession at the end of 2023. While there was a slight uptick in growth in 2024, this momentum appears to have already been lost, with the UK's economic growth forecast for 2025 recently downgraded from two percent to one percent.

Poland's core inflation in 2025, excluding food and energy prices, is expected to be **** percent. Food inflation is expected to reach *** percent, and energy prices will increase by *** percent in 2025.

Inflation is generally defined as the continued increase in the average prices of goods and services in a given region. Following the extremely high global inflation experienced in the 1980s and 1990s, global inflation has been relatively stable since the turn of the millennium, usually hovering between three and five percent per year. There was a sharp increase in 2008 due to the global financial crisis now known as the Great Recession, but inflation was fairly stable throughout the 2010s, before the current inflation crisis began in 2021. Recent years Despite the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the global inflation rate fell to 3.26 percent in the pandemic's first year, before rising to 4.66 percent in 2021. This increase came as the impact of supply chain delays began to take more of an effect on consumer prices, before the Russia-Ukraine war exacerbated this further. A series of compounding issues such as rising energy and food prices, fiscal instability in the wake of the pandemic, and consumer insecurity have created a new global recession, and global inflation in 2024 is estimated to have reached 5.76 percent. This is the highest annual increase in inflation since 1996. Venezuela Venezuela is the country with the highest individual inflation rate in the world, forecast at around 200 percent in 2022. While this is figure is over 100 times larger than the global average in most years, it actually marks a decrease in Venezuela's inflation rate, which had peaked at over 65,000 percent in 2018. Between 2016 and 2021, Venezuela experienced hyperinflation due to the government's excessive spending and printing of money in an attempt to curve its already-high inflation rate, and the wave of migrants that left the country resulted in one of the largest refugee crises in recent years. In addition to its economic problems, political instability and foreign sanctions pose further long-term problems for Venezuela. While hyperinflation may be coming to an end, it remains to be seen how much of an impact this will have on the economy, how living standards will change, and how many refugees may return in the coming years.

Cost of food in South Africa increased 5.10 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - South Africa Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food is a component of the all-items CPI. The CPI measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative market basket of consumer goods and services. While the all-items CPI measures the price changes for all consumer goods and services, including food, the CPI for food measures the changes in the retail prices of food items only.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: Web page with links to Excel files For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

Core Inflation Index data was reported at 1.429 Index, 2018 in 2026. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.387 Index, 2018 for 2025. Core Inflation Index data is updated yearly, averaging 0.608 Index, 2018 from Dec 1982 (Median) to 2026, with 45 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.429 Index, 2018 in 2026 and a record low of 0.001 Index, 2018 in 1982. Core Inflation Index data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.OECD.EO: Consumer and Wholesale Price Index: Forecast: OECD Member: Annual. PCORE - Core inflation indexOECD group, all items non-food non-energy. See exceptions at the country serie metadataIndex, national reference year

In 2021, it was estimated that the food and grocery market in the United Kingdom (UK) grew by around four percent due to inflation. This figure was forecast to gradually decrease to *** percent by 2025.

Cost of food in Switzerland decreased 0 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Switzerland Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Headline CPI inflation (year-on-year) is expected to moderate to around *** percent in the second quarter of financial year 2025 and increase in the third quarter. CPI excluding food, beverages, tobacco and fuel/light was projected to be *** percent in that quarter.

Cost of food in Indonesia increased 3.69 percent in January of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Indonesia Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Context

This is a relatively small dataset of the USDA Monthly Cost of Food report. The data given is from January of each year from 2000-2021. The report details expected food costs broken down by demographic and year, as well as food expenditure level, from a "Thrifty" food plan which describes careful budgeted food purchasing, to a "Liberal" food plan which entails more open food purchasing.

Content

This data was sourced directly from the USDA Food Plans website and read/converted from PDF form using Tabula

Acknowledgements

USDA Food Plans: https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/usda-food-plans-cost-food-reports-monthly-reports Photo by Jakub Kapusnak on Unsplash

Inspiration

How have food costs increased in the last 20 years? Have food costs kept pace with overall inflation, or are they higher or lower than expected? What should projected food costs be going forward?

Like this dataset? See my other datasets!