{"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%","change":"+0.71 percentage points since August 2026","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","readingLabel":"Consumer-price inflation, year on year","readingValue":"5.54%","comparison":{"status":"compared","method":"difference","value":0.71,"unit":"percentage points","measure":"cpi_inflation_percent","observationPeriod":"2026-09","comparatorPeriod":"2026-08","text":"+0.71 percentage points since August 2026"},"cadence":"Monthly","version":"d5f58aa8b8fb1c1a857889d66d8179db47a24a6f446e60d087f86dc1b23bb15a","dateModified":"2026-10-14T19:21:19.450Z","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"]},{"id":"2025-08","cells":["August 2025","2.07%","−0.69%","2012"]},{"id":"2025-09","cells":["September 2025","1.54%","−2.28%","2012"]},{"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"]}]}],"downloads":{"json":"https://data.indiadispatch.com/data/series/economy/inflation.json","csv":"https://data.indiadispatch.com/data/series/economy/inflation.csv"},"publicationArchive":"https://data.indiadispatch.com/archive/economy/inflation"}