Living Inflation Data HBS AI Institute
Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab

The living global database for Consumer Price Indices

Living Inflation Data is continuously maintained by AI agents that scour the web for official Consumer Price Indices (CPI) releases, expand and connect data sources, clean and standardize their structure while preserving the originals, check for errors, and design new visualizations. Our goal is to build the most comprehensive, up-to-date and interconnected global database of CPIs ever assembled.

01 / COVERAGE

Global reach, local depth

Broad international benchmarks meet the source-native detail published by national statistical offices.

See the shape of the archive

The interactive coverage map makes geography, coverage type and basket-weight availability visible at once.

Open the coverage atlas →

Browse Countries

Move from the comparable headline to the classification its publisher actually uses, with bases explicit.

Consumer Price Index (CPI) →

Follow the evidence

Known defects are dated and marked on the cells they affect. Published values are never rewritten.

Quality record →

02 / PIPELINE

What the database is working on

Scheduled agents research official sources, extend history, build connectors and validate every release against a public queue.

17 queued 0 in progress 18 under review 72 released
Next run

Waiting for the next scheduled run

The daily worker will claim the highest-priority actionable task. No agent is represented as active until a run actually claims one.

Queued

Repair Colombia CPI collection

Colombia · Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica · updated 2026-10-26

Support the current mixed XLS/XLSX CPI release catalogue and validate required official query history without changing resource identities or source families.

The documented blocker was resolved; fresh source review and candidate validation are required.

Queued

Repair Panama CPI collection

Panama · Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censo Panama · updated 2026-10-25

Review the short-series rolling-window restatement guard against a complete disposable response and preserve all source identities and revision history.

The documented blocker was resolved; fresh source review and candidate validation are required.

See the complete collection plan → · Read the source archive