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Official Consumer Price Inflation Rate by Country — National Statistics Offices (US, UK, Canada, Australia)

Headline consumer price inflation (change vs. same month a year earlier) as published by the national statistics office: US CPI-U (BLS), UK CPI (ONS), Canada CPI (Statistics Canada), Australia monthly CPI (ABS). Monthly history; for Germany use de-consumer-prices, for EU countries the Eurostat HICP endpoints. Options for country: US (United States, CPI-U all items (computed from the BLS index)), GB (United Kingdom, CPI annual rate (ONS D7G7)), CA (Canada, CPI all-items (computed from the Statistics Canada index)), AU (Australia, monthly CPI all groups, annual change (ABS)).

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/official-inflation-rate?country=US&compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"official-inflation-rate"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "official-inflation-rate",
  "data_freshness": "cached",
  "data": {
    "country": "US",
    "series": "United States, CPI-U all items (computed from the BLS index)",
    "unit": "% vs. year earlier",
    "frequency": "M",
    "latest": {
      "period": "2026-09",
      "value": 3.7
    },
    "history": [
      {
        "period": "2025-08",
        "value": 2.9
      },
      {
        "period": "2025-09",
        "value": 3
      },
      {
        "period": "2025-11",
        "value": 2.7
      },
      {
        "period": "2025-12",
        "value": 2.7
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-01",
        "value": 2.4
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-02",
        "value": 2.4
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-03",
        "value": 3.3
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-04",
        "value": 3.8
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-05",
        "value": 4.2
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-06",
        "value": 3.5
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-07",
        "value": 3.4
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-08",
        "value": 3.4
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-09",
        "value": 3.7
      }
    ],
    "available": {
      "from": "2001-01",
      "to": "2026-09",
      "points": 308
    },
    "note": "Value computed here as the change vs. the same period one year earlier from the published index, rounded to one decimal (the publisher's own method).",
    "computed": true,
    "verification": {
      "checked_at": "2026-10-29T15:11:01.408Z",
      "checks": [
        {
          "period": "2026-09",
          "field": "value",
          "expected": 3.7,
          "ok": true,
          "evidence": "BLS CPI news release, September 2026: all items +3.7 % over 12 months"
        }
      ]
    },
    "source": {
      "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "licence": "Public domain (U.S. Government work)",
      "licence_url": "https://www.bls.gov/bls/linksite.htm"
    },
    "attribution": "Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics"
  },
  "source": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Office for National Statistics (UK); Statistics Canada; Australian Bureau of Statistics",
  "license": "Public domain (U.S. Government work); Open Government Licence v3.0; Statistics Canada Open Licence; CC BY 4.0"
}

Recorded history available: /api/v1/history/official-inflation-rate?country=US

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