macroeconomic stability

Global Consumer Price Inflation (annual %)

Name: Global Consumer Price Inflation (annual %)
Creator: Factrail

current value5.8annual % change in CPI

Better than normalDeclining(−0.90)

GlobalMoving normal lineimportance: 0.90unit: annual % change in CPI10 active driversUpdated Dec 2024

How to read it

The normal line moves over time; readings above it are better than normal, below it worse.

Indicator & its drivers over time

Measured value over time. The line runs green while the indicator is better than its dashed normal line and red when it’s worse.

Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.

Inflationary Pressure

Raises welfareStrengthensMacroeconomics and Finance

weight 0.58

80%

This meter is a first-order strengthening of a lower-is-better global CPI series.

2021–23 global energy price crisis

Raises welfareStrengthensenergy

weight 0.13

80%

TTF and power spikes passed into CPI via retail energy and fertiliser. Quote ACER/EEX on the edge; do not invent a unique inflation coefficient.

Global inflation surge 2021–23

Raises welfareStrengthenseconomy

weight 1.00

70%

The 2021–23 surge is a dated first-order strengthening of a lower-is-better global CPI series.

Black Sea grain / food-security corridor

Lowers welfareWeakensfood

60%

An operating corridor eases grain and oilseed export constraints that feed CPI. FAO’s own index is the price evidence; this page does not invent a unique 23% coefficient. Direction is the welfare sign of an OPEN corridor.

Russia sanctions regime (2022+)

Raises welfareStrengthenseconomy

weight 1.00

45%

A completed 2022 energy-embargo and financial-isolation cluster is a dated channel into a lower-is-better global CPI series, alongside war and reopening neighbours.

Monetary-Policy Tightness

Lowers welfareWeakensMacroeconomics and Finance

weight 0.75

45%

Completed 2021–22 hike clusters are a lagged cooling channel into a lower-is-better CPI series, alongside energy-supply neighbours.

Fact markers
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About this indicator

World aggregate annual percentage change in average consumer prices, as compiled by the IMF World Economic Outlook. A core cost-of-living welfare indicator: high inflation erodes real wages and savings, hitting low-income households hardest. Moderate, stable inflation near 2% is generally treated as healthy by central banks; the 2022 spike to ~8.7% was the highest global reading in decades.

Causal network

This indicator’s slice of Factrail’s verified causal web — the people, facts, drivers and welfare indicators it connects to. Select any node to trace a path.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed 30 June 2026