China Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
0.8%
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Jan 1990 to Aug 2026
Source: OECD prices database · CPI, all items, year on year, national methodology.
China Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In China, the inflation rate rose by 1.2pp over the year to Aug 2026, from −0.4% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −0.8% in Jan 2024 to 2.8% in Sep 2022.
Its average since Jan 1990 is 3.5%, and the latest reading is below that.
China is 30th of 33 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- prices
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The State Council sets an annual inflation target, 2% for 2026.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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