Cost of food in the United States increased 3.10 percent in February of 2026 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.

Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food and Beverages in U.S. City Average (CPIFABNS) from Jan 1967 to Feb 2026 about beverages, food, urban, consumer, CPI, inflation, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 123.9 points in January 2026. This represents a decrease compared to the same month of the previous year. Food prices worldwide Some food commodities have been hit harder than others in the past years. Global dairy, meat, and vegetable oil prices were on an upward trajectory in the first half of 2025. Regionally, the European Union (EU) and the UK have experienced a particularly high increase in the annual consumer prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, as compared to other selected countries worldwide. Inflation in Europe The inflation rate for food in the EU grew from 0.2 percent in May 2021 to 19.2 percent in March 2023, as compared to the same month in the previous year. In the following months, the food inflation started decreasing again, yet has picked up again in 2025 in line with the global trend. The overall inflation rate in the Euro area reached its peak in December 2022 at 9.2 percent. The rate has since fallen to 2.4 percent in December 2024. As measured by the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation rates in Europe were highest in Turkey, Romania, and Estonia as of April 2025.

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Food Price Index in World increased to 125.30 Index Points in February from 124.20 Index Points in January of 2026. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for World Food Price Index.

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In January 2026, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food in Mexico reached 162.7. In the same month of the previous year, the value was of 157.9. The food inflation rate that month was of around one percent, and in July 2024, food was the category with the highest inflation rate in Mexico.

Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food at Home in U.S. City Average (CUSR0000SAF11) from Jan 1952 to Feb 2026 about food, urban, consumer, CPI, housing, inflation, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

The annual FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 127.2 points in 2025. This represents an increase of 5.2 percent compared to the previous year and 27.2 percent since the baseline period of 2014-2016. Over the past year, oils registered the highest increase, with the index value rising from 138.1 index points to 161.7 index points (23.6 index points). Dairy also saw a notable increase of 17 index points. Conversely, sugar experienced the steepest drop, from 125.7 to 104.3 index points (a decline of 21.4 index points).

Cost of food in Canada increased 5.40 percent in February of 2026 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.

Description

This data set includes Global Food Price Estimates and Inflation by Product, Market, and Country. It helps gain insight into price developments beyond what can be formally measured by traditional methods.
It includes 3 CSV files:- Monthly Food Price Inflation Estimates By Country, monthly food price inflation estimates aggregated for all food products (in previous version) and Monthly food price estimates by product and market, information on model

List of food products included:

Apples, bananas, beans, bread, bulgur, cabbage, carrots, cassava, cassava flour, cassava meal, cheese, chickpeas, cocoyam, coffee instant, cowpeas, cucumbers, dates, eggplants, eggs, fish, fish catfish, fish mackerel, fish salted, fish sardine canned, fish smoked, fish tilapia, fish tuna canned, gari, garlic, groundnuts, lentils, lettuce, livestock sheep, livestock goat castrated male, livestock sheep castrated male, maize, maize flour, maize meal, meat beef, meat beef canned, meat beef minced, meat buffalo, meat chicken, meat chicken plucked, meat chicken whole frozen, meat goat, meat pork, milk, millet, oil, onions, oranges, parsley, pasta, peas, plantains, potatoes, pulses, rice, salt, sesame, sorghum, sorghum food aid, sugar, tea, tomatoes, tomatoes paste, wheat, wheat flour, yogurt

List of countries included:

Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Republic of, , Gambia, The, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic

Motivation

Food price inflation is an important metric to inform economic policy but traditional sources of consumer prices are often produced with delay during crises and only at an aggregate level. This may poorly reflect the actual price trends in rural or poverty-stricken areas, where large populations reside in fragile situations.

This statistic depicts the consumer price index (CPI) for food in the United States from 1960 to 2025. In December 2025, the consumer price index (CPI) for food amounted to *****, compared to the period from 1982 to 1984 (=100).

In July 2025, the 12-month inflation rate for food items in the United States was at 2.9 percent. That month, egg prices increased by over 16 percent compared to July 2024. Inflation for sugar and sweets saw an increase at 5.1 percent.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 128.8 points in September 2025. This represents an increase of 3.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. Food prices worldwide Some food commodities have been hit harder than others in the past years. Global dairy, meat, and vegetable oil prices were on an upward trajectory in the first half of 2025. Regionally, the European Union (EU) and the UK have experienced a particularly high increase in the annual consumer prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, as compared to other selected countries worldwide. Inflation in Europe The inflation rate for food in the EU grew from 0.2 percent in May 2021 to 19.2 percent in March 2023, as compared to the same month in the previous year. In the following months, the food inflation started decreasing again, yet has picked up again in 2025 in line with the global trend. The overall inflation rate in the Euro area reached its peak in December 2022 at 9.2 percent. The rate has since fallen to 2.4 percent in December 2024. As measured by the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation rates in Europe were highest in Turkey, Romania, and Estonia as of April 2025.

Abstract

Food price inflation is an important metric to inform economic policy but traditional sources of consumer prices are often produced with delay during crises and only at an aggregate level. This may poorly reflect the actual price trends in rural or poverty-stricken areas, where large populations reside in fragile situations. This data set includes food price estimates and is intended to help gain insight in price developments beyond what can be formally measured by traditional methods. The estimates are generated using a machine-learning approach that imputes ongoing subnational price surveys, often with accuracy similar to direct measurement of prices. The data set provides new opportunities to investigate local price dynamics in areas where populations are sensitive to localized price shocks and where traditional data are not available.

Geographic coverage notes

The data cover the following areas: Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Ethiopia, Gambia, The, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Yemen, Rep.

Cost of food in the United Kingdom increased 3.30 percent in February of 2026 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Food Inflation - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

🔎 This dataset contains monthly food price inflation data for 206 countries worldwide, covering the period from 2001 to 2025. The data is sourced from the World Bank Data360 (FAO Consumer Price Index, indicator FAO_CP_23014), making it real-world economic data ideal for analysis, visualization, and forecasting.

The dataset was originally exported with extensive metadata from the World Bank, including multiple structural and classification columns. For ease of use and clarity, I cleaned and simplified the dataset, keeping only the essential columns:

🔸 REF_AREA → Country code

🔸 REF_AREA_LABEL → Country name

🔸 TIME_PERIOD → Date of observation (monthly)

🔸 OBS_VALUE → Food price inflation value

The resulting dataset has 59,839 rows and 4 columns, with no missing values, making it ready for time series analysis, country comparisons, or global trends visualization.

Whether you are exploring economic patterns, visualizing historical inflation trends, or building predictive models, this dataset provides a clean, minimal, and analysis-ready view of global food price changes over the last two decades.

Since 2015, the consumer price index (CPI) of food in the United States has increased every year except for 2016, when the CPI decreased by *** percent. The increase of CPI for food compared to the previous year was the highest in 2022, at *** percent.

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.

CPI food component index level (2002=100)