Table 5. Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) and the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U.S. city average, all items index

Table 5. Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) and the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U.S. city average, all items index, March 2026 [Percent changes]
Month Year	Unadjusted 1-month percent change		Unadjusted 12-month percent change
Month Year	C-CPI-U(1)	CPI-U	C-CPI-U(1)	CPI-U
December 2013			1.3	1.5
December 2014			0.5	0.8
December 2015			0.4	0.7
December 2016			1.8	2.1
December 2017			1.7	2.1
December 2018			1.5	1.9
December 2019			1.8	2.3
December 2020			1.5	1.4
December 2021			6.5	7.0
December 2022			6.4	6.5
December 2023			2.9	3.4

January 2024	0.5	0.5	2.6	3.1
February 2024	0.6	0.6	2.8	3.2
March 2024	0.6	0.6	3.1	3.5
April 2024	0.4	0.4	3.0	3.4
May 2024	0.1	0.2	2.9	3.3
June 2024	0.0	0.0	2.6	3.0
July 2024	0.0	0.1	2.5	2.9
August 2024	0.0	0.1	2.2	2.5
September 2024	0.1	0.2	2.1	2.4
October 2024	0.1	0.1	2.3	2.6
November 2024	-0.1	-0.1	2.5	2.7
December 2024	0.0	0.0	2.6	2.9
January 2025	0.7	0.7	2.7	3.0
February 2025	0.4	0.4	2.6	2.8
March 2025	0.2	0.2	2.1	2.4
April 2025	0.3	0.3	2.1	2.3
May 2025	0.2	0.2	2.1	2.4
June 2025	0.3	0.3	2.5	2.7
July 2025	0.1	0.2	2.6	2.7
August 2025	0.3	0.3	2.8	2.9
September 2025	0.3	0.3	2.9	3.0
November 2025	-	-	2.6	2.7
December 2025	-0.1	0.0	2.5	2.7
January 2026	(r)0.4	0.4	(r)2.2	2.4
February 2026	(r)0.5	0.5	(r)2.2	2.4
March 2026	(r)1.1	1.0	3.1	3.3
Footnotes (1) The C-CPI-U is designed to be a closer approximation to a cost-of-living index in that it, in its final form, accounts for any substitution that consumers make across item categories in response to changes in relative prices. Since the expenditure data required for the calculation of the C-CPI-U are available only with a time lag, the C-CPI-U is issued first in preliminary form using the latest available expenditure data at that time and is subject to four revisions. (r) Revised
NOTE: Revised index for C-CPI-U: Jan. 2026=180.255. Revised index for C-CPI-U: Feb. 2026=181.103. Associated calculations, including percent change, may also have changed. Indexes are issued as initial estimates. Indexes are revised each quarter with the publication of January, April, July, and October data as updated expenditure estimates become available. The C-CPI-U indexes are updated quarterly until they become final. January-March indexes are final in January of the following year; April-June indexes are final in April of the following year; July-September indexes are final in July of the following year; October-December indexes are final in October of the following year.

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