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What is retail inflation running at?

5.54%
Sep 2026▲ 0.71 vs Aug 2026

MoSPI · released 12 Oct 2026 · next due by 12 Nov 2026

What is retail inflation running at?
PeriodValue (%)
Sep 20265.54
Aug 20264.83
Jul 20264.45
Jun 20264.38
May 20263.93
Apr 20263.48
Mar 20263.40
Feb 20263.21
Jan 20262.74

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Retail inflation in India, measured by the all-India Consumer Price Index (base 2024=100), was 5.54% in Sep 2026, compared with 4.83% in Aug 2026. Source: MoSPI, Consumer Price Index (base 2024=100).

Cite as: Consumer Price Index (Rural, Urban, Combined) (NSO, MoSPI), Sep 2026

What this shows

  • Retail inflation was 5.54% in September 2026 (provisional), up from 2.74% in January 2026, the first month on the new 2024 base.
  • Food inflation ran higher: the Consumer Food Price Index rose 7.74% year on year in September 2026.
  • Rural inflation (6.08%) was above urban (4.88%) in September 2026.

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Consumer Price Index (Rural, Urban, Combined) (NSO, MoSPI), Sep 2026

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Source and method

Source
MoSPI, Consumer Price Index (base 2024=100)
Table
CPI 2024=100, All India, Combined, CPI (General)
Released
12 Oct 2026
Retrieved
18 Oct 2026
Next due
by 12 Nov 2026
Processing
Copied as published.
Licence
GODL-India
What exactly is measured

Year-on-year change in the all-India Consumer Price Index (Combined, base 2024=100), released monthly by MoSPI. CPI was rebased to 2024 and year-on-year rates on the new base start in January 2026; rates on the old 2012 base are not comparable, so they are not shown. The latest month is provisional.

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Retail inflation by state

Year-on-year CPI inflation (base 2024=100), combined rural and urban. Source: MoSPI, Consumer Price Index (base 2024=100), State/UT-wise, Sep 2026.

Ranked

Ranked lowest first · Sep 2026 · India 5.54%

  1. 1Mizoram2.85
  2. 2Nagaland3.22
  3. 3Delhi3.40
  4. 4Meghalaya3.59
  5. 5Arunachal Pradesh3.70
  6. 6Goa3.92
  7. 7Lakshadweep3.95
  8. 8Tripura3.96
  9. 9Himachal Pradesh4.02
  10. 10West Bengal4.04
  11. 11Jammu & Kashmir4.27
  12. 12Andaman & Nicobar Islands4.30
  13. 13Haryana4.37
  14. 14Chandigarh4.39
  15. 15Assam4.62
  16. 16Sikkim4.83
  17. 17Chhattisgarh5.00
  18. 18Jharkhand5.02
  19. 19Manipur5.10
  20. 20Gujarat5.11
  21. 21Maharashtra5.18
  22. 22Kerala5.26
  23. 23Punjab5.27
  24. 24Uttarakhand5.47
  25. 25Bihar5.48
  26. 26Rajasthan5.71
  27. 27Karnataka5.86
  28. 28Ladakh5.90
  29. 29Uttar Pradesh6.08
  30. 30Andhra Pradesh6.29
  31. 31Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu6.59
  32. 32Telangana6.64
  33. 33Madhya Pradesh6.68
  34. 34Odisha6.70
  35. 35Tamil Nadu6.81
  36. 36Puducherry6.86

How are the states spread?

12 of 36 states fall between 5% and 6%. Each column counts the states in one band of retail inflation; the dashed line is the all-India figure.

Hover a column for the states in it. Bands are equal widths of the state figures, Sep 2026.

History: every published version

Each time the source changes this series we archive the full series as it stood, with an archived copy of the source, and never delete an old version. Each version has a permanent page you can cite. Recorded since 18 Oct 2026: 1 version.

No figure in this series has been revised since we began recording on 18 Oct 2026.

  1. 9 periods, latest Sep 2026: 5.54% · first snapshotArchived sourcefbac74c1b62a
Release notes (2)
  • 4.83%Aug 2026, final
  • 5.54%Sep 2026, provisional

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