Usa Inflation Rate 2024. The consumer price index was expected to show a 0.1% increase in september and a 2.3% gain from a year ago, according to dow jones consensus estimates. Core inflation, which leaves out volatile food and energy prices in order to better parse inflation’s underlying trend, was also 0.4 percent over the month and 3.8 percent over the last year.

Inflation rate for 2022 was 8.00%, a 3.3% increase from 2021. The annual inflation rate in the us likely accelerated to 2.6% in october 2024, up from 2.4% in september which was the lowest rate since february 2021, marking the first increase in inflation in seven months.