Latest release
4.8%
Consumer prices, August 2026
+0.3 pt on July; rising for ten months
+0.3 pt on July; rising for ten months
Consumer prices were 4.8% higher in August than a year earlier, above the RBI's 4% target for the third month running
Inflation has climbed back from close to zero in October 2025, the lowest reading since the 2024 basket's live print began in January 2025.
Consumer Price Index, all India, year on year, per cent, base 2024=100; lighter before January 2025, where the statistics office's back-cast gives way to the live print. Source: MoSPI. Read the guide
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The ledger
Eight measures that move every month or quarter, as they last printed
Newest first. Change is on the print before; the trend is the last three years.
| Measure | Latest | Change | A year ago | Last three years | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repo ratethe RBI's policy rate | 5.50% | ▲ 0.20 pt | 5.50% | Oct 2026 | |
| Consumer pricesyear on year | 4.8% | ▲ 0.3 pt | 2.0% | Aug 2026 | |
| Wholesale pricesyear on year | 9.9% | ▲ 0.1 pt | 0.0% | Aug 2026 | |
| Industrial outputyear on year | 8.0% | ▲ 0.6 pt | 4.7% | Aug 2026 | |
| Unemploymentage 15 and over | 5.0% | ▼ 0.1 pt | 5.1% | Aug 2026 | |
| Bank credityear on year | 19.1% | ▼ 0.2 pt | 10.0% | Aug 2026 | |
| Trade balancegoods, US$ billion | −$31.9bn | ▼ 1.1 | −$27.9 | Jul 2026 | |
| GDPreal, year on year | 7.8% | ▼ 0.8 pt | 6.9% | Apr to Jun 2026 |
Across India
Prices rose fastest in Telangana and slowest in Mizoram
Consumer prices by state and union territory, August 2026, year on year. Each is one equal tile, so Goa counts as much as Rajasthan.
- Telangana6.3%
- DNH and Daman and Diu6.2%
- Puducherry5.9%
- Tamil Nadu5.9%
- Andhra Pradesh5.5%
- Meghalaya2.8%
- Delhi2.6%
- Mizoram2.4%
The guides
36 guides to India's statistics, each with its latest figure
Every guide explains what a number measures, how it is made and how to read it, with every published series and cut to download.
Prices
Output
- GDP 7.8% Real GDP growth, year on year, Apr to Jun 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- Industrial production 8.0% Industrial output growth, year on year, August 2026 Vintage Sep 2026
- Manufacturing 13.5% Manufacturing's share of GDP, 2025 WDI vintage 13 Jul 2026
- Services 54.0% Services' share of gross value added, 2025-26 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- State economies 9.3 times Income per person, richest state against poorest, 2024-25 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- What India grows 357.7 million tonnes Foodgrains harvested in the crop year (final estimate), 2024-25 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
External
Consumption
Enterprises
Education
Social
Health
Money
- Where Indians keep their money ₹158.1 lakh crore Households' bank deposits, March 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- How much India owes 188.6% Debt of households, companies and government, % of GDP (BIS estimate), Jan to Mar 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- Interest rates 5.50% The RBI's policy repo rate, from 7 October 2026 Vintage 7 Oct 2026
- Bank credit and money 19.1% Growth of bank credit, year on year, August 2026 Vintage 9 Oct 2026
- How Indians pay 2,366 crore UPI payments made in the month, July 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
- India's banks 1.8% Banks' bad loans, gross NPAs as a share of gross advances, March 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
- Government budgets and debt 26.8% The Centre's fiscal deficit so far this year, as a share of the year's budget estimate, April to July 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
- Savings, markets and companies 6.4% Households' net financial saving, share of the quarter's GDP, Jan to Mar 2026 Vintage 10 Oct 2026
Environment
Households
- Household assets and borrowing ₹15,92,379 Mean assets per rural household, historical snapshot, 30 June 2018 Source revision date not published
- Farm households ₹10,218 Average monthly income of a farm household, July 2018–June 2019 Source revision date not published
- Digital access 86.3% Households with internet within their premises, January–March 2025 Source revision date not published
- Pensions 7,71,12,121 APY subscribers, published stock, June 2026 Source revision date not published
States and union territories
A page for each of the 28 states and 8 union territories: how it earns, spends, works, borrows and falls ill, against India and its neighbours.
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal