Inflation Rate in the United States increased to 3 percent in September from 2.90 percent in August of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In September 2025, prices had increased by three percent compared to September 2024, according to the 12-month percentage change in the consumer price index — the monthly inflation rate for goods and services in the United States. The data represents U.S. city averages. In economics, the inflation rate is a measure of the change in price level over time. The rate of decrease in the purchasing power of money is approximately equal. A projection of the annual U.S. inflation rate can be accessed here and the actual annual inflation rate since 1990 can be accessed here. InflationOne of the most important economic indicators is the development of the Consumer Price Index in a country. The change in this price level of goods and services is defined as the rate of inflation. The inflationary situation in the United States had been relatively severe in 2022 due to global events relating to COVID-19, supply chain restraints, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. More information on U.S. inflation may be found on our dedicated topic page. The annual inflation rate in the United States has increased from 3.2 percent in 2011 to 8.3 percent in 2022. This means that the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has weakened in recent years. The purchasing power is the extent to which a person has available funds to make purchases. According to the data published by the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) was about 258.84 in 2020 and is forecasted to grow up to 325.6 by 2027, compared to the base period from 1982 to 1984. The monthly percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for urban consumers in the United States was 0.1 percent in March 2023 compared to the previous month. In 2022, countries all around the world are experienced high levels of inflation. Although Brazil already had an inflation rate of 8.3 percent in 2021, compared to the previous year, while the inflation rate in China stood at 0.85 percent.

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Core consumer prices in the United States increased 3 percent in September of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - United States Core Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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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.

United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: 2% to 3% data was reported at 9.557 % in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.539 % for Mar 2025. United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: 2% to 3% data is updated monthly, averaging 14.686 % from Jun 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 143 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 19.093 % in Feb 2019 and a record low of 5.134 % in May 2022. United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: 2% to 3% data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.H078: Survey of Consumer Expectations: Inflation.

Since early 2021, inflation has consistently exceeded the Federal Reserve’s target of 2 percent. Using a combination of data, economic theory, and narrative information around historical events, we empirically assess what has caused persistently elevated inflation. Our estimates suggest that both aggregate demand and supply factors, including supply chain disruptions, have contributed significantly to high inflation.

The inflation rate in the United States is expected to decrease to 2.1 percent by 2029. 2022 saw a year of exceptionally high inflation, reaching eight percent for the year. The data represents U.S. city averages. The base period was 1982-84. In economics, the inflation rate is a measurement of inflation, the rate of increase of a price index (in this case: consumer price index). It is the percentage rate of change in prices level over time. The rate of decrease in the purchasing power of money is approximately equal. According to the forecast, prices will increase by 2.9 percent in 2024. The annual inflation rate for previous years can be found here and the consumer price index for all urban consumers here. The monthly inflation rate for the United States can also be accessed here. Inflation in the U.S.Inflation is a term used to describe a general rise in the price of goods and services in an economy over a given period of time. Inflation in the United States is calculated using the consumer price index (CPI). The consumer price index is a measure of change in the price level of a preselected market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households. This forecast of U.S. inflation was prepared by the International Monetary Fund. They project that inflation will stay higher than average throughout 2023, followed by a decrease to around roughly two percent annual rise in the general level of prices until 2028. Considering the annual inflation rate in the United States in 2021, a two percent inflation rate is a very moderate projection. The 2022 spike in inflation in the United States and worldwide is due to a variety of factors that have put constraints on various aspects of the economy. These factors include COVID-19 pandemic spending and supply-chain constraints, disruptions due to the war in Ukraine, and pandemic related changes in the labor force. Although the moderate inflation of prices between two and three percent is considered normal in a modern economy, countries’ central banks try to prevent severe inflation and deflation to keep the growth of prices to a minimum. Severe inflation is considered dangerous to a country’s economy because it can rapidly diminish the population’s purchasing power and thus damage the GDP .

This paper studies the optimal long-run inflation rate (OIR) in a small New Keynesian model, where the only policy instrument is a short-term nominal interest rate that may occasionally run against a zero lower bound (ZLB). The model allows for worst-case scenarios of misspecification. The analysis shows first, if the government optimally commits, the OIR is below 1 percent annually. Second, if the government re-optimizes each period, the OIR rises markedly to 17 percent. Third, if the government commits only to an inertial Taylor rule, the inflation bias is eliminated at very low cost in terms of welfare for the representative household. (JEL E12, E31, E43, E52, E58)

This dataset contains economic indicators for Pakistan spanning from 1986 to 2006 (21 years of data). Here's what the dataset includes: Dataset Overview:

Time Period: 1986-2006 Country: Pakistan Purpose: Inflation forecasting analysis

Variables/Columns:

Year - Time period identifier Inflation - Inflation rates (ranging from about 2.9% to 12.4%) [Column C] - Unlabeled column with values like 16.65, 17.4, 18, etc. GDP Growth - Economic growth rates (ranging from 1% to 7.8%) Unemployment - Unemployment rates (mostly between 3-8%) Broad Money - Monetary supply indicator (values in hundreds) Exports - Export values Imports - Import values Oil rents - Oil-related economic indicator (mostly below 1.0) Remittances - Foreign remittance values

Key Characteristics:

Comprehensive macroeconomic dataset Covers multiple economic indicators that typically influence inflation Suitable for econometric analysis and forecasting models Includes both monetary (broad money, remittances) and real sector variables (GDP, unemployment) Trade variables (exports/imports) for external sector analysis

This appears to be a well-structured dataset for studying inflation dynamics and building forecasting models for Pakistan's economy.

United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: 0% to 1% data was reported at 5.512 % in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.762 % for Mar 2025. United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: 0% to 1% data is updated monthly, averaging 10.318 % from Jun 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 143 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.638 % in Jan 2024 and a record low of 5.512 % in Apr 2025. United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: 0% to 1% data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.H078: Survey of Consumer Expectations: Inflation.

Cost of food in the United States increased 3.10 percent in September 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.

United States SCE: Probability of Different Inflation Outcomes: 3 Years Ahead: 0 to 2% data was reported at 12.387 % in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 12.513 % for Mar 2025. United States SCE: Probability of Different Inflation Outcomes: 3 Years Ahead: 0 to 2% data is updated monthly, averaging 18.136 % from Jun 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 143 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25.005 % in Oct 2019 and a record low of 9.609 % in Jun 2022. United States SCE: Probability of Different Inflation Outcomes: 3 Years Ahead: 0 to 2% data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.H078: Survey of Consumer Expectations: Inflation.

Inflation Expectations 3Y in the United States remained unchanged at 3 percent in September. United States 3-Year Consumer Inflation Expectations - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on October of 2025.

United States SCE: Inflation Expectation: 3 Years Ahead: Median data was reported at 3.166 % in Apr 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.000 % for Mar 2025. United States SCE: Inflation Expectation: 3 Years Ahead: Median data is updated monthly, averaging 2.908 % from Jun 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 143 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.211 % in Oct 2021 and a record low of 2.330 % in Jul 2024. United States SCE: Inflation Expectation: 3 Years Ahead: Median data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.H078: Survey of Consumer Expectations: Inflation.

Sticky price models featuring heterogeneous firms and systematic firm-level productivity trends deliver radically different predictions for the optimal inflation rate than their popular homogenous-firm counterparts: (i) the optimal steady-state inflation rate generically differs from zero and (ii) inflation optimally responds to productivity disturbances. We show this by aggregating a heterogeneous-firm model with sticky prices in closed form. Using firm-level data from the US Census Bureau, we estimate the historically optimal inflation path for the US economy: the optimal inflation rate ranges between 1 percent and 3 percent per year and displays a downward trend over the period 1977–2015.

The UK inflation rate was 3.8 percent in September 2025, unchanged from the previous two months, and the fastest rate of inflation since January 2024. Between September 2022 and March 2023, the UK experienced seven months of double-digit inflation, which peaked at 11.1 percent in October 2022. Due to this long period of high inflation, UK consumer prices have increased by over 20 percent in the last three years. As of the most recent month, prices were rising fastest in the education sector, at 7.5 percent, with prices increasing at the slowest rate in the clothing and footwear sector. The Cost of Living Crisis High inflation is one of the main factors behind the ongoing Cost of Living Crisis in the UK, which, despite subsiding somewhat in 2024, is still impacting households going into 2025. In December 2024, for example, 56 percent of UK households reported their cost of living was increasing compared with the previous month, up from 45 percent in July, but far lower than at the height of the crisis in 2022. After global energy prices spiraled that year, the UK's energy price cap increased substantially. The cap, which limits what suppliers can charge consumers, reached 3,549 British pounds per year in October 2022, compared with 1,277 pounds a year earlier. Along with soaring food costs, high-energy bills have hit UK households hard, especially lower income ones that spend more of their earnings on housing costs. As a result of these factors, UK households experienced their biggest fall in living standards in decades in 2022/23. Global inflation crisis causes rapid surge in prices The UK's high inflation, and cost of living crisis in 2022 had its origins in the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the initial waves of the virus, global supply chains struggled to meet the renewed demand for goods and services. Food and energy prices, which were already high, increased further in 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brought an end to the era of cheap gas flowing to European markets from Russia. The war also disrupted global food markets, as both Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of cereal crops. As a result of these factors, inflation surged across Europe and in other parts of the world, but typically declined in 2023, and approached more usual levels by 2024.

United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: Less Than 0% data was reported at 25.095 % in Apr 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 19.182 % for Mar 2025. United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: Less Than 0% data is updated monthly, averaging 12.056 % from Jun 2013 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 143 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25.736 % in Aug 2022 and a record low of 7.214 % in Jun 2013. United States SCE: Distribution of 3 Year Ahead Expected Inflation Rate: Less Than 0% data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.H078: Survey of Consumer Expectations: Inflation.