Hong Kong Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
1.7%
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Oct 2005 to Aug 2026
Source: IMF consumer price index (CPI, HKG.CPI._T.YOY_PCH_PA_PT.M), from the Census and Statistics Department · Composite CPI, all items, change on the same month a year earlier as the IMF publishes it, to one decimal place, monthly.
Hong Kong Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hong Kong, the inflation rate rose by 0.6pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 1.1% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.0% in Jul 2025 to 4.3% in Sep 2022.
Its average since Oct 2005 is 2.5%, and the latest reading is below that.
Hong Kong is 54th of 62 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- consumer
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Headline inflation swings when one-off government relief measures, such as rates or rent waivers, start and end.
Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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