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Consumer Price Index Released

Released Friday, 11 September 2026, 08:30 ET.

• BLS
• The publisher's release page
• Release calendar

Result

The inflation rate in the United States was 3.4% in August 2026, unchanged from July 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Source: Invokely calculation from BLS, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): all items, US city average, 12-month percent change, not seasonally adjusted. Retrieved 2026-10-08, published 2026-09-11. The figure as Invokely stored it on 2026-10-08.

Recent history

Against the previous release

Invokely has no earlier release of this series on record.

Revisions to earlier periods

This release did not change the figure of any earlier period of this series.

Follow this statistic

Inflation (CPI annual change) in United States: all figures

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): all items, US city average, 12-month percent change, not seasonally adjusted. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/cu.data.1.AllItems. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

Statistics this release updates

• Inflation (CPI annual change)
• US consumer price index (CPI-U), 1982-84 = 100

Next release

Consumer Price Index, Wednesday, 14 October 2026, 08:30 ET Released