CPI Inflation Data: US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia

This Actor returns CPI inflation data from official statistics offices. Every row is one country and one month. Each row has the consumer price index level, the year-on-year inflation rate, the month-on-month rate, the release date where the office gives it, and a link to the source.

Use this economic data to feed an inflation dashboard, an economic calendar, a pricing model or an AI agent. Schedule it in monitor mode to get each new CPI release once.

CPI inflation data coverage

Counted on 21 October 2026 with the latest-month option on.

Source	Countries	Measure	Latest month on 21 Oct 2026
UK Office for National Statistics (ONS)	United Kingdom	CPI, 2015=100	2026-09
Statistics Canada	Canada	CPI, 2002=100	2026-09
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)	Australia	Monthly CPI, Sep 2025=100	2026-08
Eurostat	European Union, euro area, 27 EU members, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Georgia, Kosovo	HICP, 2025=100	2026-09
OECD prices database	United States, Korea, China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, OECD total, G7, G20	National CPI, 2015=100	2026-08 or 2026-09

The latest-month run returned 53 rows. A 12-month window returned 627 rows.

The OECD database also holds Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Chile, Costa Rica and Japan. Their latest months lag by months or years. They appear only when your window reaches back to them.

Core, food and energy inflation

Set Price categories to get more than the headline index. Each category is its own row, with the same fields.

Category	Meaning	Countries
all-items	Headline CPI (the default)	Every country
core	All items less food and energy	Eurostat countries, UK, Canada, Australia, US, Korea, Colombia, OECD total, G7
food	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	Same as core, plus China and Argentina
energy	Energy	Eurostat countries, UK, Canada, US, Korea, Colombia, OECD total, G7

Checked on 23 October 2026. Each office uses its own definition of core. Eurostat also excludes alcohol and tobacco. The categoryName field gives the office's own name. UK core, food and energy come from the OECD copy of the ONS series. The OECD definition of UK core keeps alcohol and tobacco, so it can differ from the ONS core rate. Australia's monthly CPI has no energy total. Categories can lag the headline by a month.

Eurostat publishes the harmonised index (HICP). It can differ from a country's own national CPI. The measure field says which one each row holds.

Inflation rate data returned

Field	Meaning
countryCode	Two-letter country code, or EU, EA, OECD, G7, G20
countryName	Country or group name
period	Reference month, YYYY-MM
measure	CPI or HICP
category	all-items, core, food or energy
categoryName	The office's own name for the category
indexValue	Index level for the month and category
indexBase	Base period of the index
yoyPercent	Change from the same month a year earlier, in percent
momPercent	Change from the previous month, in percent
ratesComputed	True when the Actor computed the rates from the index (Statistics Canada only)
releaseDate	Date the office published the figure (ONS and Statistics Canada)
sourceUpdatedAt	When the source last updated the series or dataset
statisticsOffice	Office that compiles the figure
source	ONS, STATCAN, ABS, EUROSTAT or OECD
sourceUrl	Page on the official site
dataUrl	API address the Actor read
id	Country code and month, for example GB-2026-09. Other categories add the category, for example GB-2026-09-core
scrapedAt	When the Actor collected the row

Empty fields:

• releaseDate is empty for Eurostat, ABS and OECD rows. Their APIs give no release date per month.
• sourceUpdatedAt is empty for ABS and OECD rows for the same reason.
• indexValue is empty for Argentina. The OECD database holds only its rates.
• A rate can be empty when the office has yet to publish it for that month.

The Actor never fills a missing value with a guess.

How to get CPI inflation data

1. Leave Countries empty for every country, or enter codes such as US, GB, DE, EA.
2. Keep Latest month only on for a snapshot. Turn it off and set Months back or Start month for history.
3. For a release feed, turn on Monitor mode and schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns only country-months it has not returned before.

Option	Default	Meaning
Countries	All	Two-letter or three-letter codes, or English names
Statistics sources	All five	ONS, STATCAN, ABS, EUROSTAT, OECD
Price categories	All items	all-items, core, food, energy
Latest month only	On	Newest month per country inside the window
Months back	12	Size of the period window
Start month / End month	Empty	Fixed window, YYYY-MM
Monitor mode	Off	Return only country-months returned for the first time
Monitor name	default	Name of the monitor memory. The old field stateKey still works
Maximum rows	100	Stop after this many rows. Set 0 for no limit

Monitor mode remembers a country-month once it has been returned. A later revision to that month is skipped.

Inflation data pricing

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.02 per run at the default 256 MB memory (one event per GB, minimum one)
CPI record	$0.004 per country-month saved to the dataset

A latest-month snapshot of all 53 countries and groups costs about $0.21 plus the start fee. Rows outside your filters cost nothing. The Pricing tab always shows the current price.

Input and output example

Input from a real run on 21 October 2026:

{
  "countries": ["US", "GB", "DE", "CA", "AU", "EA"],
  "latestOnly": false,
  "monthsBack": 6,
  "maxItems": 30
}

The first output row from that run (the category fields were added on 23 October 2026):

{
  "id": "CA-2026-09",
  "countryCode": "CA",
  "countryName": "Canada",
  "period": "2026-09",
  "measure": "CPI",
  "category": "all-items",
  "categoryName": "All-items",
  "indexValue": 170,
  "indexBase": "2002=100",
  "yoyPercent": 3.1,
  "momPercent": 0.1,
  "ratesComputed": true,
  "releaseDate": "2026-10-19",
  "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-10-19T12:30:00.000Z",
  "statisticsOffice": "Statistics Canada",
  "source": "STATCAN",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000401",
  "dataUrl": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/wds/rest/getDataFromVectorsAndLatestNPeriods",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T11:17:02.958Z"
}

CPI and inflation FAQ

Where do the US inflation figures come from?

They come from the OECD prices database. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics API blocks automated access in its robots.txt.

What is the difference between CPI and HICP?

HICP is the harmonised index that Eurostat uses to compare EU countries. A national CPI can use different weights. The measure field tells you which one a row holds.

How fast do new CPI releases appear?

A row appears as soon as the official API publishes the month. Schedule the Actor daily in monitor mode to catch each release once.

Can I get core inflation?

Yes. Add core to Price categories. You get one extra row per country and month, for example EA-2026-09-core. Food and energy work the same way.

Can I get a history of inflation rates?

Yes. Turn off Latest month only and set Months back or a fixed start and end month.

Can AI agents use it?

Yes. An agent can ask for a few country codes and get one flat JSON row per country-month.

Data sources and use

• All data comes from official public APIs that need no login or key.
• The Actor sends a handful of requests per run. It waits and retries when a source is busy. If one source stays down, the run finishes with the others and the status message names the missing source.
• Licences: ONS under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Statistics Canada under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. ABS, Eurostat and OECD under CC BY 4.0. Credit the office when you republish.
• Rows hold aggregate national statistics only. They contain no personal data.

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