Year on year food inflation, based on Consumer Food Price Index, in October, 2026 is 8.94%
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Mumbai, 12 November, 2026: Year-on-year inflation rate based on All India Consumer Price Index (CPI) with base year 2024 for the month of October, 2026 over October, 2025 is 6.09%(Provisional). Corresponding inflation rates for rural and urban are 6.63% and 5.41%, respectively.
. Key Statistics
| September, 2026 (Final) | October, 2026 (Provisional) | ||||||
Rural | Urban | Combined | Rural | Urban | Combined | |||
Inflation (%) | CPI (General) | 6.08 | 4.88 | 5.54 | 6.63 | 5.41 | 6.09 | |
CFPI | 8.06 | 7.18 | 7.74 | 9.09 | 8.68 | 8.94 | ||
Index | CPI (General) | 110.11 | 108.71 | 109.49 | 110.73 | 109.22 | 110.05 | |
CFPI | 112.21 | 112.10 | 112.17 | 113.22 | 113.24 | 113.23 | ||
Highlights
Retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index in October, 2026 is 6.09%
Year on year food inflation, based on Consumer Food Price Index, in October, 2026 is 8.94%
Top 5 key items with low inflation at All India combined level in October, 2026 are given in table below:
S.No. | Item | Weight | Inflation (%) September, 2026 | Inflation (%) October, 2026 | |
1 | Onion |
| 0.7006
| 108.13 | 116.22 |
2 | Garlic |
| 0.3738 | 54.62 | 60.74 |
3 | Silver Jewellery |
| 0.3127
| 87.82 | 52.39 |
4 | Ginger |
| 0.2556 | 62.85 | 48.32 |
5 | Lemon |
| 0.1367
| 36.41 | 47.30 |
State level Indices
Top five States (having more than 50 lakh population as per Census 2011) with high headline and food
Inflation in October, 2026 are given below-
Response Rate- Real time price data are collected from selected 1407 urban Markets (including online markets) and 1465 villages covering all States/UTs through personal visits by field staff of Field Operations Division of NSO, MoSPI on a weekly roster. During October 2026, the response rate was 100% in both rural and urban markets.
CPI for November 2026 will be released on 14th December, 2026 (Monday) or the next working day in case of 14th being a holiday. State and Item wise indices for October, 2026 may be downloaded from eSankhyiki portal of MoSPI- https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in/ State-level item indices available on the portal should be interpreted and used with caution, as the indices for some items may have been compiled using thin samples of price quotations. Indices at all levels and inflation rates are compiled using the actual index values without rounding off. However, the indices published are rounded off to two decimal places. Therefore, higher-level indices, if calculated from the published figures may observe minute differences. The reference period for price reporting for petrol, diesel and LPG prices are 15th of the corresponding month. |
