India Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices rose compared with a year earlier.
5.0%
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Jan 2015 to Aug 2026
Source: OECD consumer price statistics · all items, year on year, not seasonally adjusted (OECD publishes non-seasonally adjusted national CPIs for member and major non-member economies alike).
India Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In India, the inflation rate rose by 1.8pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 3.2% in Aug 2025.
It is the highest reading since Nov 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.1% in Jul 2024 to 7.5% in Jul 2023.
India is 16th 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
- OECD
- Series
- consumer
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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