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  "format": "india-by-the-numbers.series.v1",
  "id": "economy/inflation",
  "name": "Consumer-price inflation",
  "hub": "Economy",
  "topic": "Inflation and prices",
  "moduleIds": [
    "inflation"
  ],
  "url": "https://data.indiadispatch.com/economy/inflation",
  "period": "September 2026",
  "periodKey": "2026-09",
  "latest": {
    "formattedValue": "5.54%",
    "supportingFigures": "Consumer-price inflation measures the year-on-year change in household prices. Food inflation was 7.74% in the same release. These are annual rates, not monthly price changes."
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation",
    "url": "https://www.mospi.gov.in/"
  },
  "numericValue": 5.54,
  "unit": "percent",
  "measure": "cpi_inflation_percent",
  "cadence": "Monthly",
  "version": "44f8b260effaed88a5eb4d417844b6012dafac7a0d38d58a3a7151370459be1c",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-13T09:00:47.329Z",
  "coverage": "2025-07/2026-09",
  "notes": [
    "+0.71 points compared with August 2026.",
    "+2.14 points compared with March 2026.",
    "+4 points compared with September 2025.",
    "The consumer price index, or CPI, changed its base from 2012 to 2024 in 2026. The table identifies the base used for every observation; the series is not an unchanged-basket index.",
    "A lower positive inflation rate means prices are still rising, but more slowly than a year earlier. A negative rate means a year-on-year fall."
  ],
  "license": {
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "scope": "India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text"
  },
  "sourceRights": "Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.",
  "attribution": "India by the numbers, Consumer-price inflation, September 2026, https://data.indiadispatch.com/economy/inflation. Source: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.",
  "valueRepresentation": "Table cells are the publication's formatted observations, with units retained. Missing observations are not zero. Numeric latest amounts, where present, are separately labelled INR and USD.",
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "All-India combined inflation",
      "columns": [
        "Month",
        "Consumer prices",
        "Food prices",
        "Index base"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "id": "2025-07",
          "cells": [
            "July 2025",
            "1.55%",
            "−1.76%",
            "2012"
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        },
        {
          "id": "2025-08",
          "cells": [
            "August 2025",
            "2.07%",
            "−0.69%",
            "2012"
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            "September 2025",
            "1.54%",
            "−2.28%",
            "2012"
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        {
          "id": "2025-10",
          "cells": [
            "October 2025",
            "0.25%",
            "−5.02%",
            "2012"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2025-11",
          "cells": [
            "November 2025",
            "0.71%",
            "−3.91%",
            "2012"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2025-12",
          "cells": [
            "December 2025",
            "1.33%",
            "−2.71%",
            "2012"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-01",
          "cells": [
            "January 2026",
            "2.75%",
            "2.13%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-02",
          "cells": [
            "February 2026",
            "3.21%",
            "3.47%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-03",
          "cells": [
            "March 2026",
            "3.4%",
            "3.87%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-04",
          "cells": [
            "April 2026",
            "3.48%",
            "4.2%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-05",
          "cells": [
            "May 2026",
            "3.93%",
            "4.78%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-06",
          "cells": [
            "June 2026",
            "4.38%",
            "5.32%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-07",
          "cells": [
            "July 2026",
            "4.45%",
            "5.52%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-08",
          "cells": [
            "August 2026",
            "4.83%",
            "5.97%",
            "2024"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2026-09",
          "cells": [
            "September 2026",
            "5.54%",
            "7.74%",
            "2024"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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