The median CPI rate in the United States increased to 3.8 percent year-on-year in December 2021 from 3.5 percent in the previous month. It was the highest rate since December 1991. source: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

CPI Median in the United States averaged 2.87 percent from 1983 until 2021, reaching an all time high of 4.80 percent in August of 1990 and a record low of 0.50 percent in May of 2010. This page provides - United States CPI Median- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States CPI Median - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on January of 2022.

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United States CPI Median


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United States CPI Median
In the United States, Median CPI is the one-month inflation rate of the component whose expenditure weight is in the 50th percentile of price changes. To calculate the median CPI, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland looks at the prices of the goods and services published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But instead of calculating an inflation rate that is a weighted average of all of the items in the CPI, as the BLS does, the Cleveland Fed ranks the inflation rates of the components of the CPI and picks the one in the middle of the distribution—that is, the item whose expenditure weight is in the 50th percentile of the price change distribution.