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What is wholesale food inflation running at?

8.66%
Sep 2026▲ 1.61 vs Aug 2026

DPIIT · released 14 Oct 2026 · next due by 16 Nov 2026

What is wholesale food inflation running at?
PeriodValue (%)
Sep 20268.66
Aug 20267.05
Jul 20266.56
Jun 20266.23
May 20264.58
Apr 20263.29
Mar 20261.92
Feb 20261.27
Jan 2026−0.36
Dec 2025−2.53
Nov 2025−3.61
Oct 2025−5.14
Sep 2025−3.40
Aug 2025−1.95
Jul 2025−2.05
Jun 2025−1.62
May 20250.09

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Wholesale food inflation in India, measured by the WPI Food Index (base 2022-23=100), was 8.66% in Sep 2026, compared with 7.05% in Aug 2026. Source: DPIIT, Office of the Economic Adviser, Wholesale Price Index (base 2022-23=100).

Cite as: Wholesale Price Index (WPI) (Office of the Economic Adviser, DPIIT), Sep 2026

What this shows

  • Wholesale food inflation was 8.66% in September 2026 (provisional), up from 7.05% in August 2026 (provisional).
  • The Food Index was still falling year on year in January 2026 (-0.36%) and turned positive in February 2026 (1.27%).
  • Wholesale food inflation was above retail food inflation in September 2026: 8.66% against 7.74% for the CPI's Consumer Food Price Index.

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Wholesale Price Index (WPI) (Office of the Economic Adviser, DPIIT), Sep 2026

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Source and method

Source
DPIIT, Office of the Economic Adviser, Wholesale Price Index (base 2022-23=100)
Table
WPI 2022-23=100, Food Index; YoY of the published index (wpi_monthly_index file)
Released
14 Oct 2026
Retrieved
18 Oct 2026
Next due
by 16 Nov 2026
Processing
Year-on-year change in DPIIT's published WPI Food Index, to two decimals; it reproduces DPIIT's published rates from December 2025.
Licence
GODL-India
What exactly is measured

Year-on-year change in the WPI Food Index (base 2022-23=100), compiled by the Office of the Economic Adviser, DPIIT. The Food Index combines 'Food Articles' from primary articles and 'Manufacture of Food Products' from manufactured products (weight 24.99%). Rates are shown from May 2025, the first month DPIIT published a rate on the 2022-23 base; DPIIT's releases print monthly rates from December 2025, and earlier months are the year-on-year change in DPIIT's published index, calculated the way DPIIT calculates the printed ones. The latest month is provisional and is finalised two months later.

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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. 17 periods, latest Sep 2026: 8.66% · first snapshotArchived source55762b0cbc64
Release notes (5)
  • 4.49%May 2026, first release on the new 2022-23 base
  • 4.58%May 2026, final (revised from 4.49% provisional)
  • 6.23%Jun 2026, final (revised from 6.14% provisional)
  • 6.56%Jul 2026, final (revised from 6.65% provisional)
  • 8.66%Sep 2026, provisional

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