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Inflation in the G7 Since 2019
Consumer price inflation, % change from a year earlier, monthly
5 of 7 series are above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
United States · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Canada · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
United Kingdom · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Germany · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Continuation isn't available for France: Charts project up to 4 series.
Continuation isn't available for Italy: Charts project up to 4 series.
Continuation isn't available for Japan: Charts project up to 4 series.
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.
All-items consumer price index, from the OECD; the change from a year earlier is calculated by Palanor.
The inflation surge of 2021 to 2023 in the seven largest advanced economies, and how far each has come back down. Italy and the United Kingdom, hit hardest by the energy shock, peaked highest; Japan’s rise came later and stayed smaller.
What this chart reads·7 series
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- United States Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “United States”latest 2026-09-01
- Canada Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “Canada”latest 2026-09-01
- United Kingdom Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “United Kingdom”latest 2026-09-01
- Germany Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “Germany”latest 2026-09-01
- France Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “France”latest 2026-09-01
- Italy Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “Italy”latest 2026-09-01
- Japan Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)as “Japan”behindlatest 2026-08-01
Sources·7 sources
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United States Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key USA.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
Canada Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key CAN.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
United Kingdom Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key GBR.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
Germany Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key DEU.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
France Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key FRA.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
Italy Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key ITA.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
Japan Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD). Source: Computed by Palanor from the OECD index: (CPI this month ÷ CPI a year earlier − 1) × 100. OECD, Consumer price indices (CPIs, HICPs): the COICOP 2018 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES_COICOP2018@DF_PRICES_C2018_ALL) or, for countries the OECD has not yet moved to it, the COICOP 1999 dataflow (OECD.SDD.TPS,DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL); key JPN.M.N.CPI.IX._T.N._Z (monthly, national CPI, index, all items, not seasonally adjusted). Data Explorer: https://data-explorer.oecd.org. Palanor reads it every day and keeps one dataflow for the whole series. Source: OECD. Licence: CC BY 4.0; the OECD terms say "Except where additional restrictions apply as stated above, you can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data for any purpose, even for commercial use."
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.