🔎 Key Highlights

• ✔ All India CPI Inflation (Jan 2026): 2.75%
• ✔ Rural Inflation: 2.73%
• ✔ Urban Inflation: 2.77%
• ✔ Food Inflation (CFPI): 2.13%
• ✔ Housing Inflation: 2.05%
• ✔ Base Year Updated to 2024=100
• ✔ Item Basket Increased from 299 → 358

📈 CPI & CFPI Index Movement (2025–Jan 2026)

📊 Division-wise Inflation (Combined %)

🔥 Top 5 High Inflation Items

• 💎 Silver Jewellery – 159.67%
• 🍅 Tomato – 64.80%
• 🥥 Coconut (Copra) – 47.18%
• 💍 Gold/Diamond Jewellery – 46.77%
• 🛢 Coconut Oil – 40.44%

📉 Top 5 Low Inflation Items

• 🧄 Garlic – -53.05%
• 🧅 Onion – -29.27%
• 🥔 Potato – -28.98%
• 🌾 Arhar/Tur – -24.90%
• 🌱 Peas – -15.56%

🏛 Major Structural Changes in CPI 2024

• 🔄 Adoption of COICOP 2018 (12 Divisions)
• 🏠 Rural Housing Included
• 💻 Online Markets Added (12 Cities)
• 📱 OTT, Airfare, Rail Fare collected digitally
• 📊 CAPI (Tablet-based Data Collection)
• 🔗 Linking Factor (Combined): 0.5267

🌎 Top 5 States with Highest Inflation

1. Telangana – 4.92%
2. Kerala – 3.67%
3. Tamil Nadu – 3.36%
4. Rajasthan – 3.17%
5. Karnataka – 2.99%

📚 Technical Overview

✔ Weight Reference: HCES 2023-24
✔ Price Reference Period: Jan–Dec 2024
✔ Goods Items: 308
✔ Services Items: 50
✔ Total Markets Covered: 1,465 Rural + 1,395 Urban + 12 Online
✔ Housing Weight (Rural): 11.764%

📝 Conclusion

The CPI 2024 series marks a significant modernization of India's inflation measurement framework. With updated weights, expanded item coverage, digital price collection, and international classification standards, the new series provides a more realistic and transparent inflation estimate. January 2026 inflation remains moderate at 2.75%, with food inflation easing but personal care and precious metals showing sharp price rise.