Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)¶
Indicator id: cpi_inflation_yoy · Unit: % per year · Coverage: 1961-2024
Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a fixed basket of goods and services, measured by the consumer price index.
Sources¶
- World Bank (preferred) -- dataset
WDI, codeFP.CPI.TOTL.ZG(https://data.worldbank.org) - International Monetary Fund -- dataset
WEO:PCPIPCH, codePCPIPCH(https://www.imf.org)
Reconciliation note: IMF WEO's PCPIPCH (average consumer prices, annual % change) and the World Bank's FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG are conceptually the same measure but draw on different CPI vintages/base years; for Nepal they typically differ by one to a few points in a given year (verified live, 2020: 6.1% IMF vs 5.1% WB). This is the genuine cross-agency methodological difference expected between IMF and World Bank inflation series, not a data error.
Caveats¶
Bound is wide to accommodate genuine hyperinflation episodes in other countries under global ingestion (ADR 003); Nepal's series has stayed in single/low-double digits historically.
Taxonomy¶
Topic: Economy & Growth
Themes: economy
Also known as¶
"inflation", "inflation rate", "cost of living", "prices rising", "CPI"
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