Inflation rates experienced by different groups of consumers within a country vary. This is because the prices of goods and services and the expenditure patterns of consumers differ. The published inflation rate is used for important decisions regarding the preservation of consumer purchasing power. These include the adjustment of social grants and minimum wages by government and the benchmarking of returns by investors when making investment decisions. It is thus vital that inflation is measured accurately to ensure the purchasing power of consumers is preserved. Current measures of inflation published by Stats SA are applicable to typical consumers and are not relevant to each individual. This resource supplements a study that seeks to provide a publicly available model that can be used by consumers to calculate their personal rate of inflation.

Core consumer prices in the United States increased 2.50 percent in February of 2026 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.

Graph and download economic data for Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index (PCEPI) from Jan 1959 to Jan 2026 about chained, headline figure, PCE, consumption expenditures, consumption, personal, inflation, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

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.

The inflation rate for personal care in the European Union reached 1.7 percent in December 2025, representing a decline from the 2.1 percent rate recorded in the same month of the previous year. During December 2025, the inflation rate for the EU as a whole was 2.3 percent.

Measures of monthly UK inflation data including CPIH, CPI and RPI. These tables complement the consumer price inflation time series dataset.

The median CPI is a measure of inflation computed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. It ranks the components of CPI inflation and picks the one in the middle. Its construction makes it less sensitive to short-lived price fluctuations, thereby better capturing the trend in prices. Released monthly.

In August 2024, the consumer price index for personal expenses in Brazil increased by **** percent compared to the previous month. Since August 2020, the CPI for personal expenses has remained with a positive monthly variation rate.

Graph and download economic data for Longer Run FOMC Summary of Economic Projections for the Personal Consumption Expenditures Inflation Rate, Median (PCECTPIMDLR) from 2015-06-17 to 2026-03-18 about projection, PCE, consumption expenditures, consumption, personal, median, inflation, rate, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy (Chain-Type Price Index) (PCEPILFE) from Jan 1959 to Jan 2026 about core, chained, headline figure, energy, PCE, consumption expenditures, consumption, personal, inflation, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

In October 2025, the consumer price index for health and personal care in Brazil increased by **** percent compared to the previous month. With **** percent, April was the month 2025 with the largest month-to-month CPI variation.

Graph and download economic data for FOMC Summary of Economic Projections for the Personal Consumption Expenditures Inflation Rate, Central Tendency, Low (PCECTPICTL) from 2026 to 2028 about projection, PCE, consumption expenditures, consumption, personal, inflation, rate, and USA.

Median Personal Consumption Expenditures Inflation is a part of the Median PCE Inflation indicator of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

This dataset provides researchers with access to the detailed underlying data used in the production of consumer prices indices. The figures are provided for research purposes only, are not accredited official statistics, and users should exercise caution when drawing conclusions from their use.

From March 2026, the existing price quote data will be updated to exclude individual price quote information for COICOP Divisions 1 and 2. This change reflects that we are no longer able to release individual price quotes where scanner data have been integrated with locally collected data. There will be no changes to the availability of data in the monthly consumption segment indices dataset.

In addition, new regional consumption segment indices, weights, and counts of manually collected indicator marker codes (such as sales and recoveries) are being published. Additional outputs are also planned for release from summer 2026 and further details can be found in the Related links section of this page.

These changes aim to provide data continuity whilst maintaining confidentiality across our microdata release.

Comprehensive database of time series covering measures of inflation data for the UK including CPIH, CPI and RPI.

We report average expected inflation rates over the next one through 30 years. Our estimates of expected inflation rates are calculated using a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland model that combines financial data and survey-based measures. Released monthly.

Since June 2022, annual prices of fuel and lubricants for individual transport in Poland have been steadily decreasing. In October 2024, the prices decreased by *** percent year-on-year.

Inflation Nowcasting Quarterly is a part of the Inflation Nowcasting indicator of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

In 2020, the core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) of the United States came to *** percent in a year over year comparison to the previous period. The core PCE shows the prices paid by consumers for goods and services excluding food and energy, which experience high volatility. The core PCE is forecasted to have a *** percent year over year increase by 2024.

Median Consumer Price Index is a part of the Median CPI indicator of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.