Japan Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
2.1%
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Jan 1971 to Sep 2026
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan (e-Stat) · all items, year on year, not seasonally adjusted, 2025 base (the Statistics Bureau's headline figure since August 2026), as published by the Bureau, not recalculated from the index.
Japan Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Japan, the inflation rate fell by 0.8pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 2.9% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.1% in Oct 2021 to 4.3% in Jan 2023.
Its average since Jan 1971 is 2.4%, and the latest reading is below that.
Japan is 50th 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
- Statistics Bureau of Japan (e-Stat)
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Bank of Japan targets 2% inflation.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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