A–Z of economic indicators

The Consumer Price Index is a monthly measure of changes in the prices consumers pay for a broad basket of goods and services.

The U.S. Consumer Price Index tracks changes in prices paid by urban consumers and is a major gauge of U.S. inflation pressure.

A yearly measure of US consumer-price inflation excluding food and energy.

A US inflation measure that excludes food and energy prices from the Consumer Price Index.

A monthly measure of underlying US consumer-price inflation that excludes food and energy.

A monthly measure of underlying US consumer-price inflation that excludes food and energy.

Albania’s CPI inflation rate tracks changes in consumer prices using INSTAT’s Consumer Price Index. The release is watched for signals about purchasing power, monetary policy pressure and lek-denominated market expectations.

A monthly measure of changes in consumer prices paid by households in Brandenburg, Germany.

A monthly measure of changes in consumer prices in Hesse, expressed here against the previous month.

CPI measures the change in the price of a basket of goods and services bought by households, and it is the headline gauge of inflation. Core CPI strips out food and energy to show the underlying trend. Because central banks set interest rates to control inflation, a CPI surprise moves currencies quickly and is one of the highest-impact releases on the calendar.

IPC-Fipe Inflation MoM tracks monthly consumer price changes in São Paulo and is used as a timely local inflation gauge for Brazil.

12-month change in Norway's core inflation measure, CPI-ATE (adjusted for tax changes, excluding energy), published by Statistics Norway.

A monthly measure of changes in consumer prices paid by households in Saxony, Germany.

Angola Inflation Rate MoM is the monthly change in Angola’s national consumer price index, a short-term measure of household price inflation.

Angola’s CPI annual inflation rate measures the year-over-year change in consumer prices using the National Consumer Price Index.

A core inflation measure that removes unusually large price changes from Australia’s Consumer Price Index before calculating the average movement.

An underlying-inflation measure that identifies the weighted midpoint of monthly price changes across Australia’s CPI basket.

Weighted Median CPI is an underlying-inflation measure that focuses on the price change affecting the middle of the household expenditure basket after components are ranked and weighted.

Bahrain's Consumer Price Index measures changes in the prices paid by households for a basket of consumer goods and services. Its year-on-year change is commonly described as the inflation rate.

Bangladesh’s CPI inflation rate tracks changes in household consumer prices and is a key gauge of domestic price pressure.

A monthly measure of changes in consumer prices paid by households in Bavaria.

Belarus CPI inflation year-over-year tracks the annual change in consumer prices paid by households and is a key gauge of domestic price pressure.

A monthly measure of changes in prices paid by Belgian households, with the MoM reading showing the change from the previous month.

Botswana’s month-over-month inflation rate tracks the monthly change in consumer prices using the national Consumer Price Index.

Botswana’s CPI annual inflation rate measures the year-over-year change in consumer prices for goods and services purchased by households.

Brazil IPCA-15 is an early monthly reading of consumer price inflation in Brazil. It tracks how prices paid by households change during a mid-month collection window rather than the full calendar month.

Bulgaria’s CPI inflation rate month-over-month measures the monthly change in household consumer prices and is the country’s national CPI-based measure of short-term inflation momentum.

Bulgaria’s year-over-year CPI inflation rate measures the annual change in consumer prices paid by households and is a key gauge of price pressure in the Bulgarian economy.

Croatia’s Consumer Price Index measures changes in the prices private households pay for goods and services. The year-on-year rate compares the latest month with the same month a year earlier.

A Bank of England business-survey measure of the UK CPI inflation rate firms expect one year ahead.

Ecuador’s CPI annual inflation rate measures the year-over-year change in consumer prices paid by urban households, using the Consumer Price Index published by INEC.

Egypt's CPI annual inflation rate tracks the year-over-year change in headline consumer prices and is a key measure of household price pressure.

Ethiopia’s CPI inflation rate year-over-year measures the annual percentage change in consumer prices using the national Consumer Price Index.

A monthly euro-area inflation measure that removes tobacco prices from the consumer-price basket.

A quarterly national-accounts measure of price change across the goods and services included in GDP.

Georgia’s annual inflation rate measures the year-on-year change in consumer prices using the national consumer price index.

A monthly measure of how consumer prices in Germany changed from the previous month.

HICP annual inflation measures year-on-year consumer price changes using Europe’s comparable inflation index.

Iceland's Consumer Price Index measures monthly changes in the prices households pay for a representative basket of goods and services.

A monthly measure of how consumer prices in Kazakhstan changed compared with the previous month.

An annual measure of the change in Lebanon's Consumer Price Index.

Macau's monthly measure of changes in consumer prices paid by households.

Macau's Consumer Price Index measures changes in the prices households pay for goods and services. The year-on-year rate compares the Composite CPI with the same month one year earlier.

An annual measure of changes in household consumer prices in Malawi.

The Mauritius Consumer Price Index tracks changes in the prices households pay for goods and services; its month-on-month change measures recent inflation momentum.

A monthly measure of the change in Mauritius consumer prices from the same month a year earlier.

Moldova Inflation Rate MoM measures the monthly change in consumer prices using the Consumer Price Index.

Moldova's year-over-year inflation rate tracks the annual change in household consumer prices using the Consumer Price Index.

Mongolia's year-over-year inflation rate tracks the annual change in national consumer prices using the Consumer Price Index.

Pakistan's monthly CPI release measures changes in household consumer prices, including the month-on-month inflation rate.

Pakistan’s year-on-year CPI inflation rate compares the overall cost of a household consumption basket with its level in the same month one year earlier.

Ukraine’s month-over-month inflation rate shows the latest monthly change in the Consumer Price Index for goods and services bought by households.

Zambia’s Consumer Price Index tracks changes in the prices households pay for goods and services; the monthly inflation reading compares the index with the previous month.

An annual measure of changes in the prices Zambian households pay for goods and services.

An annual underlying-inflation measure derived from Australia’s Consumer Price Index by excluding the most extreme component price movements.

The Consumer Price Index measures changes in the prices households pay for a basket of everyday goods and services.

A monthly measure of how prices paid by households in Cabo Verde have changed since the previous month.

Costa Rica's main monthly measure of changes in household consumer prices.

Finland's headline measure of the annual change in prices paid by households for a representative basket of consumer goods and services.

A monthly measure of changes in prices paid by households in Italy.

A monthly measure of annual consumer-price changes for Italian blue- and white-collar households, excluding tobacco products.

Japan’s headline consumer-inflation measure, showing how prices for a representative household basket have changed from a year earlier.

A measure of annual Japanese consumer-price inflation that removes fresh food and energy to focus on underlying price pressures.

The Seychelles Consumer Price Index tracks changes in the prices households pay for a basket of goods and services. Its year-on-year rate is a widely used measure of annual consumer inflation.

An early estimate of the monthly change in prices paid by households in Spain.

A monthly measure of how Tunisia's consumer-price index changed from the previous month.