The data includes the following information for various tax credits and benefits: * maximum amounts * income ranges * phase-out rates Each year the maximum amounts and income ranges for certain credits and benefits are adjusted for inflation. You can download the dataset to view these adjustments.

SELECTED ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS INCOME AND BENEFITS (IN 2021 2022 INFLATION-ADJUSTED DOLLARS) - DP03 Universe - Total households Survey-Program - American Community Survey 5-year estimates Years - 2020, 2021, 2022 Total income is the sum of the amounts reported separately for wage or salary income; net self-employment income; interest, dividends, or net rental or royalty income or income from estates and trusts; Social Security or Railroad Retirement income; Supplemental Security Income (SSI); public assistance or welfare payments; retirement, survivor, or disability pensions; and all other income. Receipts from the following sources are not included as income: capital gains, money received from the sale of property (unless the recipient was engaged in the business of selling such property); the value of income “in kind” from food stamps, public housing subsidies, medical care, employer contributions for individuals, etc.; withdrawal of bank deposits; money borrowed; tax refunds; exchange of money between relatives living in the same household; gifts and lump-sum inheritances, insurance payments, and other types of lump sum receipts.

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Inflation can cause costly misallocations of resources as consumers seek to protect the purchasing power of their nominal assets. This research deals with the nature of these distortions, known as "shoe-leather costs," in a model where the demand for money is motivated by a shopping-time constraint. While the estimates of the shoe-leather costs of long-run inflation (implied by this model) are generally consistent with previous studies, the research shows that the transition between inflation rates can involve dynamics that alter the nature of these welfare effects. Specifically, the benefits of a disinflation policy are mitigated by the gradual adjustment of the economy in response to a lower inflation rate. This transition can be particularly protracted when there is uncertainty about the credibility of the disinflation policy.

This is the replication package for "The benefits of forecasting inflation with machine learning: New evidence" by A. Naghi, E. O'Neill, and M. Zaharieva, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2023, forthcoming. The readme file contains a detailed description of the data and how to replicate the results. The zipped folder contains all data sets CSV, text, and Rdata formats. The zipped folder also contains the R scripts required to replicate the results.

Iran’s inflation rate rose sharply to 34.79 percent in 2019 and was projected to rise another 14 percentage points before slowly starting to decline. Given the recent sanctions by the United States regarding the nuclear deal, this number has both political and economic implications. Political implications President Hassan Rouhani won the 2017 election based on economic promises, many stemming from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. Lifting these sanctions opened the Iranian economy to many opportunities, including the chance to benefit from increased oil exports. The JCPOA was an integral part of the Rouhani campaign, so any economic hardship that is linked to the deal will likely be blamed on the president. Economic implications High inflation leads to high interest rates, which leads to less borrowing. Less borrowing means less investment, which slows economic growth. This slower growth often leads to higher inflation, which is what economists call an inflationary spiral. As such, Iran will have difficulty achieving substantial GDP growth until inflation returns to manageable rates.

What are the effects of a higher central bank inflation target on the burden of real public debt? Several recent proposals have suggested that even a moderate increase in the inflation target can have a pronounced effect on real public debt. We consider this question in a New Keynesian model with a maturity structure of public debt and an imperfectly observed inflation target. We find that moderate changes in the inflation target only have significant effects on real public debt if they are essentially permanent. Moreover, the additional benefits of not communicating a change in the inflation target are minor.

This dataset includes economic statistics on inflation, prices, unemployment, and pay & benefits provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery .

In 2022, more than 60 percent of Poles stated that the Family 500+ benefit should be indexed for inflation every year.

In March 2025, inflation amounted to 2.4 percent, while wages grew by 4.3 percent. The inflation rate has not exceeded the rate of wage growth since January 2023. Inflation in 2022 The high rates of inflation in 2022 meant that the real terms value of American wages took a hit. Many Americans report feelings of concern over the economy and a worsening of their financial situation. The inflation situation in the United States is one that was experienced globally in 2022, mainly due to COVID-19 related supply chain constraints and disruption due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The monthly inflation rate for the U.S. reached a 40-year high in June 2022 at 9.1 percent, and annual inflation for 2022 reached eight percent. Without appropriate wage increases, Americans will continue to see a decline in their purchasing power. Wages in the U.S. Despite the level of wage growth reaching 6.7 percent in the summer of 2022, it has not been enough to curb the impact of even higher inflation rates. The federally mandated minimum wage in the United States has not increased since 2009, meaning that individuals working minimum wage jobs have taken a real terms pay cut for the last twelve years. There are discrepancies between states - the minimum wage in California can be as high as 15.50 U.S. dollars per hour, while a business in Oklahoma may be as low as two U.S. dollars per hour. However, even the higher wage rates in states like California and Washington may be lacking - one analysis found that if minimum wage had kept up with productivity, the minimum hourly wage in the U.S. should have been 22.88 dollars per hour in 2021. Additionally, the impact of decreased purchasing power due to inflation will impact different parts of society in different ways with stark contrast in average wages due to both gender and race.

The statistic shows the inflation rate in India from 1987 to 2024, with projections up until 2030. The inflation rate is calculated using the price increase of a defined product basket. This product basket contains products and services, on which the average consumer spends money throughout the year. They include expenses for groceries, clothes, rent, power, telecommunications, recreational activities and raw materials (e.g. gas, oil), as well as federal fees and taxes. In 2024, the inflation rate in India was around 4.67 percent compared to the previous year. See figures on India's economic growth for additional information. India's inflation rate and economy Inflation is generally defined as the increase of prices of goods and services over a certain period of time, as opposed to deflation, which describes a decrease of these prices. Inflation is a significant economic indicator for a country. The inflation rate is the rate at which the general rise in the level of prices, goods and services in an economy occurs and how it affects the cost of living of those living in a particular country. It influences the interest rates paid on savings and mortgage rates but also has a bearing on levels of state pensions and benefits received. A 4 percent increase in the rate of inflation in 2011 for example would mean an individual would need to spend 4 percent more on the goods he was purchasing than he would have done in 2010. India’s inflation rate has been on the rise over the last decade. However, it has been decreasing slightly since 2010. India’s economy, however, has been doing quite well, with its GDP increasing steadily for years, and its national debt decreasing. The budget balance in relation to GDP is not looking too good, with the state deficit amounting to more than 9 percent of GDP.

Consumer price indexes (CPIs) are index numbers that measure changes in the prices of goods and services purchased or otherwise acquired by households, which households use directly, or indirectly, to satisfy their own needs and wants. In practice, most CPIs are calculated as weighted averages of the percentage price changes for a specified set, or ‘‘basket’’, of consumer products, the weights reflecting their relative importance in household consumption in some period. CPIs are widely used to index pensions and social security benefits. CPIs are also used to index other payments, such as interest payments or rents, or the prices of bonds. CPIs are also commonly used as a proxy for the general rate of inflation, even though they measure only consumer inflation. They are used by some governments or central banks to set inflation targets for purposes of monetary policy. The price data collected for CPI purposes can also be used to compile other indices, such as the price indices used to deflate household consumption expenditures in national accounts, or the purchasing power parities used to compare real levels of consumption in different countries.

In an effort to further coordinate and harmonize the collection of CPI data, the international organizations agreed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) would assume responsibility for the international collection and dissemination of national CPI data. Under this data collection initiative, countries are reporting the aggregate all items index; more detailed indexes and weights for 12 subgroups of consumption expenditure (according to the so-called COICOP-classification), and detailed metadata. These detailed data represent a valuable resource for data users throughout the world and this portal would not be possible without the ongoing cooperation of all reporting countries. In this effort, the OECD collects and validates the data for their member countries, including accession and key partner countries, whereas the IMF takes care of the collection of data for all other countries.

The data includes the following information for various tax credits and benefits: * maximum amounts * income ranges * phase-out rates Each year the maximum amounts and income ranges for certain credits and benefits are adjusted for inflation. You can download the dataset to view these adjustments.

Potential output plays a central role in monetary policy and short-term macroeconomic policy making. Yet, characterizing the output gap involves a trend-cycle decomposition, and unobserved component estimates are typically subject to a large uncertainty at the sample end. An important consequence is that output gap estimates can be quite inaccurate in real time, as recently highlighted by Orphanides and van Norden (2002), and this causes a serious problem for policy makers. For the cases of the US, EU-11 and two EU countries, we evaluate the benefits of using inflation data for improving the accuracy of real-time estimates.

The FAOSTAT monthly Food CPI and General CPI database was based on the ILO CPI data until December 2014. In 2014, IMF-ILO-FAO agreed to transfer global CPI data compilation from ILO to IMF. Upon agreement, CPIs for all items and its sub components originates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the UN Statistics Division(UNSD) for countries not covered by the IMF. However, due to a limited time coverage from IMF and UNSD for a number of countries, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Central Bank of Western African States (BCEAO), Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), UNdata, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and national statistical office website data are used for missing historical data from IMF and UNSD food CPI. The FAO CPI dataset for all items(or general CPI) and the Food CPI, consists of a complete and consistent set of time series from January 2000 onwards. Data gaps on monthly Food CPI and General CPI are filled using statistical estimation procedures to have full data coverage for all countries for Food CPI and for General CPI. These indices measure the price change between the current and reference periods of the average basket of goods and services purchased by households. The General CPI is typically used to measure and monitor inflation, set monetary policy targets, index social benefits such as pensions and unemployment benefits, and to escalate thresholds and credits in the income tax systems and wages in public and private wage contracts. The FAOSTAT monthly Food CPI inflation rates are annual year-over-year inflation or percentage change over corresponding month of the previous year. The data included in Data360 is a subset of the data available from the source. Please refer to the source for complete data and methodology details. This collection includes only a subset of indicators from the source dataset.

Inflation Rate in Sweden decreased to 0.20 percent in May from 0.30 percent in April of 2025. This dataset provides - Sweden Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Health and Medical Insurance Market Outlook

The global health and medical insurance market size was valued at approximately $2.8 trillion in 2023 and is projected to reach around $4.5 trillion by 2032, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4% during the forecast period. This robust growth can be attributed to a combination of factors, including rising healthcare costs, increasing awareness about the importance of health insurance, and an aging global population. The market's expansion is further supported by technological advancements that streamline the insurance process and enhance customer experience.

One of the primary growth drivers in this market is the escalating cost of healthcare services worldwide. Medical inflation is outpacing general inflation, leading to higher out-of-pocket expenses for individuals. This has created a significant demand for health and medical insurance as a financial safety net. Furthermore, advancements in medical technology and the introduction of new treatment methods are contributing to higher healthcare costs, which in turn boosts the demand for insurance coverage. Governments and private entities are increasingly collaborating to make health insurance more accessible and affordable, thus driving market growth.

Another crucial factor contributing to the market's growth is the increasing awareness and understanding of health insurance benefits among the global population. With the proliferation of information through digital media and government initiatives, more people are becoming aware of the financial and health security that insurance provides. Educational campaigns and policy reforms are playing a pivotal role in educating the masses about the necessity of health insurance, thereby leading to higher enrollment rates. Additionally, employers are also recognizing the importance of offering health benefits to their employees, which further adds to the market's growth.

The aging global population is another significant driver for the health and medical insurance market. As the population ages, the prevalence of chronic diseases and the need for long-term care increase. Older adults are more likely to require frequent medical attention, making health insurance a crucial component of their financial planning. This demographic shift is particularly pronounced in developed countries, but emerging markets are also beginning to experience similar trends. Consequently, insurance providers are developing specialized products to cater to the needs of an aging population, thereby expanding their customer base.

Regionally, the market growth is expected to vary significantly. North America currently dominates the market, thanks to high healthcare costs, comprehensive insurance plans, and government mandates like the Affordable Care Act. However, the Asia Pacific region is anticipated to witness the highest growth rate during the forecast period. This can be attributed to improving economic conditions, increased healthcare spending, and growing awareness about health insurance. Countries like China and India are implementing extensive healthcare reforms, making insurance more accessible to their vast populations. Europe and Latin America are also expected to show steady growth, supported by government initiatives and increasing private sector participation.

Type Analysis

The health and medical insurance market can be segmented by type into individual health insurance, family health insurance, critical illness insurance, and others. Individual health insurance plans are designed to cover a single person, offering customized coverage based on personal health needs. This segment is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing number of self-employed individuals and freelancers who require personal health coverage. Additionally, the rise in single-person households is contributing to the demand for individual health insurance plans.

Family health insurance plans cover the entire family under a single policy. These plans are becoming increasingly popular as they offer comprehensive coverage for all family members, often at a lower cost compared to purchasing individual policies for each member. The convenience and cost-effectiveness of family health insurance plans are driving their adoption, especially among young families who are looking to secure their health future. Moreover, insurers are offering flexible plans that can be tailored to meet the specific health needs of families, further boosting this segment.

Critical illness insurance is another vital segment

Inflation Rate in Mexico increased to 4.42 percent in May from 3.93 percent in April of 2025. This dataset provides - Mexico Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.