US Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
3.7%
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Jan 1971 to Sep 2026
Source: Calculated from FRED series CPIAUCNS · all items, not seasonally adjusted (BLS). This is the basis of the 12-month change BLS publishes.
US Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the US, the inflation rate rose by 0.7pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 3.0% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.3% in Apr 2025 to 9.1% in Jun 2022.
Its average since Jan 1971 is 4.0%, and the latest reading is below that.
The US is 29th 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
- BLS via FRED
- Series
- CPIAUCNS
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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