consumer price index

English

Alternative forms

• CPI (abbreviation)

Noun

consumer price index

1. (economics) A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.
   • 2022 May 11, Dominic Rushe, “US inflation rate slows but remains close to 40-year high”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The latest consumer price index (CPI) figures—which measure a broad range of goods and services—showed prices rising by a monthly rate of 0.3% in April, down from 1.2% in March, the first fall since August 2021.

Coordinate terms

• (statistical estimate): producer price index, Retail Price Index

Translations

statistical estimate of the level of prices

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消費者物價指數／消费者物价指数 (xiāofèizhě wùjià zhǐshù), 消費價格指數／消费价格指数 (zh) (xiāofèi jiàgé zhǐshù), 居民消費價格指數／居民消费价格指数 (zh) (jūmín xiāofèi jiàgé zhǐshù)

• Czech: index spotřebitelských cen m
• Dutch: consumentenprijsindex (nl) m
• Finnish: kuluttajahintaindeksi (fi)
• French: indice des prix à la consommation m
• German: Lebenshaltungskostenindex m, Verbraucherpreisindex (de) m
• Hungarian: fogyasztói árindex (hu)
• Indonesian: indeks harga konsumen
• Italian: indice prezzi al consumo
• Japanese: 消費者物価指数 (しょうひしゃぶっかしすう, shōhisha bukka shisū)
• Malay: indeks harga pengguna
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsumprisindeks m

  Nynorsk: konsumprisindeks m

• Russian: и́ндекс потреби́тельских цен m (índeks potrebítelʹskix cen)
• Spanish: índice de precios al consumo m
• Swedish: konsumentprisindex (sv) n
• Ukrainian: і́ндекс спожи́вчих цін m (índeks spožývčyx cin)