Philippines Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
7.2%
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Jan 1995 to Sep 2026
Source: PSA consumer price index for all income households, 2018=100, OpenSTAT 0012M4ACP23 · all items, change on a year earlier, as published from January 2019; 1995 to 2018 from PSA's 2018-based index (0012M4ACP28).
Philippines Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Philippines, the inflation rate rose by 5.5pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 1.7% in Sep 2025.
It is the highest reading since Mar 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.9% in Jul 2025 to 8.7% in Jan 2023.
Its average since Jan 1995 is 4.5%, and the latest reading is above that.
Philippines is 3rd of 54 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- PSA consumer price index for all income households, 2018=100, OpenSTAT 0012M4ACP23
- 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
The jump in April 2026, from 4.1% to 7.2%, is a real event: transport prices rose 21.4% on a year earlier and food 6.0%.
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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