Peru Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
4.5%
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Jan 1995 to Sep 2026
Source: Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), series PN01273PM, from INEI · Metropolitan Lima consumer price index, all items, change on the same month a year earlier, to one decimal place, monthly.
Peru Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Peru, the inflation rate rose by 3.1pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 1.4% in Sep 2025.
It is the highest reading since Sep 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.1% in Aug 2025 to 8.8% in Jun 2022.
Its average since Jan 1995 is 3.9%, and the latest reading is above that.
Peru is 18th 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
- Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), series PN01273PM, from INEI
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Metropolitan Lima's index is Peru's headline inflation measure, the one the central bank targets at 1% to 3%.
Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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