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China: Consumer price index

Index, 2015 = 100 · 1640–2025 · 215 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CPI

2025
115.4index, 2015 = 100
Change on 2024
+0.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.4%a year

Consumer price index

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ForecastIndex, 2015 = 100

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Recent values

Index, 2015 = 100

YearValue
2031128.2Forecast
2030125.7Forecast
2029123.2Forecast
2028120.9Forecast
2027118.8Forecast
2026117.0Forecast
2025115.4
2024115.3
2023115.0
2022114.8
2021112.6
2020111.7
2019108.9
2018105.7
2017103.7
2016102.1

Sources

  • Clio Infra1640–1643
  • Reinhart & Rogoff1800–2014
  • Historical Financial Statistics1926–1940
  • Mitchell1970–2008
  • World Bank (inflation)1970–2024
  • National Bureau of Statistics of China1978–2023
  • Bank for International Settlements1978–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • WDI (archive)1986–1997
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1986–2025
  • World Development Indicators1986–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1987–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1993–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1993–2025
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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