The Consumer Price Index across all groups of commodities decreased to 4.1 percent in urban India compared to 5.0 percent in rural areas during financial year 2025. CPI-based inflation remained higher in rural areas as compared to urban areas during the examined period.

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., Gambia, The, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen, Rep.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

In January 2024, the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items in rural Egypt increased 3.7 points to 202.2 points, in comparison to the preceding month. However, when compared to January 2023, the CPI in rural Egyptian areas increased nearly 50 points, as in that month the index was measured at 152.6 points.

In 2023 and through 2024, the world saw inflation rates increase amid, among other things, post-COVID-19 effects and the Russia-Ukraine war. Argentina and Turkey were both plagued by hyperinflation, with over 219 and 58 percent in 2024, respectively. Except for these, Russia had the highest inflation rate, at nearly eight percent. On the other hand, China had the lowest rate of the countries included here, at 0.2 percent. Argentinian inflation crisis During the 2020s, Argentina was struck by extreme levels of inflation, which severely impacted the livelihoods of Argentinians. Specifically, the costs of goods have presented numerous challenges to Argentinian consumers. In Argentina, a basic food basket that costs around 26,000 Argentinian pesos cost over 100,000 by February 2024. Similarly, a basic consumer goods basket that cost around 57,000 Argentinian pesos in February 2023 rose to over 220,000 by February 2024. While these rising costs have been challenging for consumers, Argentina’s inflation rate is expected to decrease beginning in 2024 and is estimated to reach 8.9% by 2029.

British recession Besides the outliers of Argentina and Turkey, the United Kingdom had a comparatively high CPI rate. As of 2024, the British economy has entered a recession, the only G7 country to do so. Just before the general election held in July 2024, British voters indicated that health, mostly the lack of financial support and staff shortages, as well as the economy was the most important issue to them.

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.

This dataset is about countries per year in the Americas. It has 2,240 rows. It features 4 columns: country, inflation, and rural population.

Russia was forecast to have the highest inflation rate among the presented Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in 2024, at 7.86 percent compared to the previous year. To compare, consumer prices in Ukraine were expected to grow by 5.84 percent.

This dataset is about countries per year in Central America and has 512 rows. It features 4 columns: date, country, inflation, and rural population. The preview is ordered by date (descending).

In 2023, Pakistan's inflation rate was estimated to be just over 29 percent, with projections indicating it would fall to around 9.5 percent by 2025. In contrast, the Maldives had an inflation rate of about 2.6 percent in 2023, which was forecasted to rise to approximately 5.2 percent in 2025.

The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food and non-alcoholic beverages in rural Egypt increased to 124.1 points in March 2022. In the month before, the index was measured at 118.4 points. In comparison to March 2021, the CPI increased even more. In that month, the indicator was at 98.4 points in rural areas. Moreover, the monthly CPI for all items in Egypt's rural territories was at 126.1 points as of March 2022.

This dataset provides values for FOOD INFLATION reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The dataset contains year- and month-wise historically compiled from the year 1960 to till date on the consumer price index, along with linking factor, of industrial workers, agricultural and rural labourers

Note: Data for the latest two months are provisional.

This scatter chart displays inflation (annual %) against rural population (people) in Caribbean. The data is about countries.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The graph shows the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in China as of April 2025, by sector and area. That month, the CPI for transportation and communication in urban areas resided at ** index points. Measuring inflation The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an economic indicator that measures changes in the price level of a representative basket of consumer goods and services. It is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the market basket and averaging them. Goods and services are weighted according to their significance. The CPI can be used to assess the price changes related to the cost of living. It is also useful for identifying periods of inflation and deflation. A significant rise in CPI during a short period of time denotes inflation and a significant drop during a short period of time suggests deflation. Development of inflation in China Annual projections of China’s inflation rate forecast by the IMF estimate a relatively low increase in prices in the coming years. The implications of low inflation are two-fold for a national economy. On the one hand, price levels remain largely stable which may lead to equal or increased spending levels by domestic consumers. On the other hand, low inflation signifies an expansion slowdown of the economy, as is reflected by China’s gross domestic product growth. In recent years, inflation rates in rural areas have on average been slightly higher than in the cities. This reflects a shift of economic growth from the largest cities and coastal regions to the inner provinces and the countryside. Higher price levels in rural areas in turn relate to higher inflation rates of food products.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

In 2023, the inflation rate in Laos, measured as the year-on-year percentage change in average consumer prices, exceeded 31 percent. In comparison, China's inflation rate was around 0.23 percent in 2023. Pakistan is forecasted to reach an inflation rate of over 23.41 percent in 2024, the highest in the Asia-Pacific region.

CPI: Rural: RE: Cultural & Recreational Article: Cultural Article data was reported at 100.700 Prev Year=100 in Dec 2015. This stayed constant from the previous number of 100.700 Prev Year=100 for Nov 2015. CPI: Rural: RE: Cultural & Recreational Article: Cultural Article data is updated monthly, averaging 100.500 Prev Year=100 from Jan 2005 (Median) to Dec 2015, with 132 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 101.800 Prev Year=100 in Oct 2008 and a record low of 99.600 Prev Year=100 in Jun 2006. CPI: Rural: RE: Cultural & Recreational Article: Cultural Article data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Inflation – Table CN.IA: Consumer Price Index: Rural: Same Month PY=100.

This dataset provides values for FOOD INFLATION reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.