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Inflation by Generation Compared With the Average Household
Cumulative price rise since January 2019 for each age group minus all consumers, percentage points
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Palanor calculation. Each age group’s spending basket from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys (age of the household’s reference person), repriced with CPI-U component indexes, reweighted every year with a two-year lag as the CPI does. Owner housing is priced by owners’ equivalent rent. Generations by birth year as of the latest survey year. Above zero, the group’s basket rose more than the average household’s.
Which age groups have faced more inflation than the average household since 2019, and which less, because of what they buy. Both sides are priced the same way, so the gap is about the basket, not the method.
What this chart reads·6 series
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- U.S. Inflation by Generation · Gen Z (Under 25) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019as “Gen Z (under 25)”latest 2026-09-01
- U.S. Inflation by Generation · Younger Millennials (25 to 34) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019as “Younger Millennials (25 to 34)”latest 2026-09-01
- U.S. Inflation by Generation · Older Millennials (35 to 44) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019as “Older Millennials (35 to 44)”latest 2026-09-01
- U.S. Inflation by Generation · Gen X (45 to 54) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019as “Gen X (45 to 54)”latest 2026-09-01
- U.S. Inflation by Generation · Younger Boomers and Older Gen X (55 to 64) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019as “Younger Boomers, older Gen X (55 to 64)”latest 2026-09-01
- U.S. Inflation by Generation · Boomers and Older (65 and Over) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019as “Boomers and older (65 and over)”latest 2026-09-01
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U.S. Inflation by Generation · Gen Z (Under 25) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019. Source: Palanor calculation. Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, component indexes. Weights: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Table 1300 (age of reference person), 2017 to 2024. Both public domain. Recomputed each month after the CPI release.
U.S. Inflation by Generation · Younger Millennials (25 to 34) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019. Source: Palanor calculation. Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, component indexes. Weights: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Table 1300 (age of reference person), 2017 to 2024. Both public domain. Recomputed each month after the CPI release.
U.S. Inflation by Generation · Older Millennials (35 to 44) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019. Source: Palanor calculation. Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, component indexes. Weights: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Table 1300 (age of reference person), 2017 to 2024. Both public domain. Recomputed each month after the CPI release.
U.S. Inflation by Generation · Gen X (45 to 54) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019. Source: Palanor calculation. Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, component indexes. Weights: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Table 1300 (age of reference person), 2017 to 2024. Both public domain. Recomputed each month after the CPI release.
U.S. Inflation by Generation · Younger Boomers and Older Gen X (55 to 64) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019. Source: Palanor calculation. Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, component indexes. Weights: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Table 1300 (age of reference person), 2017 to 2024. Both public domain. Recomputed each month after the CPI release.
U.S. Inflation by Generation · Boomers and Older (65 and Over) vs. All Consumers · Gap Since January 2019. Source: Palanor calculation. Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, component indexes. Weights: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Table 1300 (age of reference person), 2017 to 2024. Both public domain. Recomputed each month after the CPI release.
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