Every number, term by term
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Consumer prices, all items
price index, not adjusted for season Measured every month, 1913 to 2026.
Each bar: how fast it rose or fell in a term, as an average per year, from the month before the term began to its last month.
Went up in 12 terms.
Consumer prices, all items: rise or fall in each term, in % a year.
Reagan 1: from Jan 1981 to Jan 1985 it changed +21.3% in all, which is +4.9% a year.Reagan 1: from Jan 1981 to Jan 1985 it changed +21.3% in all, which is +4.9% a year.Reagan 2: from Jan 1985 to Jan 1989 it changed +14.8% in all, which is +3.5% a year.Bush (H.W.): from Jan 1989 to Jan 1993 it changed +17.8% in all, which is +4.2% a year.Clinton 1: from Jan 1993 to Jan 1997 it changed +11.6% in all, which is +2.8% a year.Clinton 2: from Jan 1997 to Jan 2001 it changed +10.1% in all, which is +2.4% a year.Bush (W.) 1: from Jan 2001 to Jan 2005 it changed +8.9% in all, which is +2.2% a year.Bush (W.) 2: from Jan 2005 to Jan 2009 it changed +10.7% in all, which is +2.6% a year.Obama 1: from Jan 2009 to Jan 2013 it changed +9.1% in all, which is +2.2% a year.Obama 2: from Jan 2013 to Jan 2017 it changed +5.5% in all, which is +1.3% a year.Trump 1: from Jan 2017 to Jan 2021 it changed +7.7% in all, which is +1.9% a year.Biden: from Jan 2021 to Jan 2025 it changed +21.4% in all, which is +5.0% a year.Trump 2: from Jan 2025 to Aug 2026 it changed +5.4% in all, which is +3.4% a year. Measure: CPI-U all items, US city average, not seasonally adjusted. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI-U), series CUUR0000SA0.
Reagan 1: the agency changed this series: “Introduced rental equivalence concept in January 1983 for the CPI-U and in January 1985 for the CPI-W”
Clinton 2: the agency changed this series (1999): “Began using a geometric mean formula for most basic indexes”
These numbers show what happened during each term. Congress, the courts, the states, the Federal Reserve and events abroad also move them.
How we counted
Each bar compares the month before a term began with the term’s last month, and spreads that change evenly over the years, as one steady rise or fall per year. A short term and a full one are then on the same scale. The whole-term change is the row under the name. A month counts for the president in office for most of it; for monthly figures, January counts for the president leaving office.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI-U) publishes this series. It covers 1913 to 2026.
Changes the agency made to this series
- : “Introduced rental equivalence concept in January 1983 for the CPI-U and in January 1985 for the CPI-W”
- 1987 (fifth comprehensive revision): “Based weights on the 1982–84 Consumer Expenditure Survey and the 1980 Census”
- 1998 (sixth comprehensive revision): “Based weights on the 1993–95 Consumer Expenditure Survey”
- 1999: “Began using a geometric mean formula for most basic indexes”
- 2002: “Implemented biennial weight updates ... Added the C-CPI-U in August”
- 2023: “Implemented annual weight updates”
- April and June 2025: “In April, BLS suspended CPI data collection entirely in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT. In June, BLS suspended collection entirely in Buffalo, NY. ... These actions have minimal impact on the overall all-items CPI-U and CPI-W indexes”
- October 2025: “BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data. Survey data for commodities and services were carried forward to October 2025 from September 2025. November 2025 indexes were calculated by comparing the collected November 2025 prices with the carried-forward October 2025 prices.”
Periods with no value
- October 2025 (Trump 2): no value was published, and nothing is filled in.
Recessions
The recession months follow the dates of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the group that dates US recessions. NBER counts a recession from the month after the economy’s high point (the peak) through the month of its low point (the trough). Each month counts for the term it falls in, so a recession that runs across two terms counts in both, each with its own months. Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Business Cycle Dating Committee.