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Consumer prices · 1,339 categories · latest 2026-09-01

CoverageNational-office detail
Price-series levelsLevels 1–6 + unranked legacy items
Weight levelsLevels 1–2
Weight historySingle snapshot · 2024-01-01
Source detailitems across 3 separate bases
Series / concepts3,047 / 1,342
Period range1957-01-01 to 2026-09-01
Last successful ingest2026-10-28
Last changed vintage2026-10-13
International Monetary Fund, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India Frequencies: A, M

Consumer price index

Source

The same category from more than one publisher. The national statistics office is the record; the IMF's series are its own compilation and can differ in definition, coverage and vintage.

Base

MoSPI publishes these as separate classifications. The 2024 back series is source-produced; no series is spliced across bases.

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Sources: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India, Consumer Price Index, eSankhyiki (https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in/). Published under the Government Open Data License - India (https://www.data.gov.in/godl). This does not imply endorsement by the data provider. (as of 2026-09-09); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-09-14). Computed here, not published: ratio of the source index to the previous month. Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.

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