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Global Consumer Price Index & Inflation by Country (1960–2024)

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Comprehensive dataset tracking consumer price indices and inflation rates across 91 countries, 12 COICOP expenditure categories, and 65 years (1960–2024). Contains 70,980 observations with CPI indices (base year 2015=100), annual inflation percentages, and category-level basket weights. ## Sources - **World Bank Open Data**: Consumer price indices and inflation rates for 217 economies - **IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS)**: Monthly and annual CPI data, harmonized across countries - **OECD Statistics**: Detailed COICOP category breakdowns for member nations - **UN Statistics Division**: Population estimates and national accounts data - **National Statistical Offices**: Country-specific CPI methodologies and basket compositions ## Key Features - **91 countries** spanning all income groups (High, Upper Middle, Lower Middle, Low) and every major world region - **12 COICOP categories**: Food, Alcohol & Tobacco, Clothing, Housing, Furnishings, Health, Transport, Communication, Recreation, Education, Restaurants, and All Items aggregate - **65-year time series** (1960–2024) enabling long-term trend analysis - **Crisis detection**: Captures hyperinflation episodes (Argentina 2023-24, Turkey 2022, Lebanon 2020-23, etc.) - **Global shock indicators**: Reflects 2008 financial crisis, COVID-19 deflationary effects, and 2021-22 post-pandemic inflation surge - **Income-group stratification**: Enables comparison of price dynamics across development levels ## Use Cases - Macroeconomic research and inflation forecasting - Cross-country purchasing power analysis - Cost-of-living comparisons and expatriate pricing models - Monetary policy impact studies - Supply chain cost modeling across geographies - Academic research on inflation dynamics and transmission mechanisms

Schema

Name	Type	Description
id	string
country	string
iso_code	string
region	string
income_group	string
year	string
category_name	string
category_code	string
cpi_index_2015_base	string
annual_inflation_pct	string
basket_weight_pct	string
population_millions	string

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