Retail Inflation Eases to 4.83% in April, 2024

April 22, 2024 10:51 am

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New Delhi, May 13

The annual inflation rate based on all India Consumer Price Index (CPI) number is 4.83% (Provisional) for the month of April, 2024 (over April, 2023). Corresponding inflation rate for rural and urban is 5.43% and 4.11%, respectively.

1. CPI for the months of January, February and March 2024 are 5.10, 5.09 and 4.85 respectively.
2. Among the top five groups, the year-on-year inflation on groups ‘Clothing & Footwear’, ‘Housing’ and ‘Fuel & light’ has decreased since last month.

All India Inflation rates (on point to point basis i.e. current month over same month of last year, i.e.

April 2024 over April 2023), based on General Indices and CFPIs are given as follows:

All India year-on-year inflation rates (%) based on CPI (General) and CFPI: April 2024 over April

2023

		Apr. 2024 (Prov.)			Mar. 2024 (Final)			Apr. 2023
		Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.
Inflation	CPI (General)	5.43	4.11	4.83	5.51	4.14	4.85	4.68	4.85	4.70
Inflation	CFPI	8.75	8.56	8.70	8.55	8.41	8.52	3.89	3.69	3.84
Index	CPI (General)	188.5	184.7	186.7	187.8	183.6	185.8	178.8	177.4	178.1
Index	CFPI	188.9	195.4	191.2	187.8	193.4	189.8	173.7	180.0	175.9

Notes: Prov. – Provisional, Combd. – Combined

Monthly changes in the General Indices and CFPIs are given below:

Monthly changes (%) in All India CPI (General) and CFPI: April 2024 over March 2024

Indices	Apr. 2024 (Prov.)			Mar. 2024 (Final)			Monthly change (%)
Indices	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.
CPI (General)	188.5	184.7	186.7	187.8	183.6	185.8	0.37	0.60	0.48
CFPI	188.9	195.4	191.2	187.8	193.4	189.8	0.59	1.03	0.74

Note: Figures of April 2024 are provisional.

Response rate: The price data are collected from selected 1114 urban Markets and 1181 villages covering all States/UTs through personal visits by field staff of Field Operations Division of NSO, MoSPI on a weekly roster. During the month of April 2024, NSO collected prices from 99.9% villages and 98.5% urban markets while the market-wise prices reported therein were 89.8% for rural and 93.2% for urban.

Next date of release for May 2024 CPI is 12^th June 2024 (Wednesday). For more details please visit the website www.mospi.gov.in

List of Annex

Annex	Title
I	All-India General, Group and Sub-group level CPI and CFPI numbers for March 2024 (Final) and April 2024 (Provisional) for Rural, Urban and Combined
II	All-India inflation rates (%) for General, Group and Sub-group level CPI and CFPI numbers for April 2024 (Provisional) for Rural, Urban and Combined
III	General CPI for States for Rural, Urban and Combined for March 2024 (Final) and April 2024 (Provisional)
IV	Year-on-year inflation rates (%) of major States for Rural, Urban and Combined for April 2024 (Provisional)

Annex I

All-India General, Group and Sub-group level CPI and CFPI numbers for March 2024 (Final) and April 2024 (Provisional) for Rural, Urban and Combined

(Base: 2012=100)

Group Code	Sub-group Code	Description	Rural			Urban			Combined
Group Code	Sub-group Code	Description	Weights	Mar. 24 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Weights	Mar. 24 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Weights	Mar. 24 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)
*(1)*	*(2)*	*(3)*	*(4)*	*(5)*	*(6)*	*(7)*	*(8)*	*(9)*	*(10)*	*(11)*	*(12)*
	1.1.01	Cereals and products	12.35	189.3	188.8	6.59	188.5	188.9	9.67	189.0	188.8
	1.1.02	Meat and fish	4.38	217.9	223.0	2.73	226.7	232.8	3.61	221.0	226.4
	1.1.03	Egg	0.49	192.7	180.1	0.36	194.3	184.1	0.43	193.3	181.6
	1.1.04	Milk and products	7.72	183.2	183.6	5.33	183.6	184.0	6.61	183.3	183.7
	1.1.05	Oils and fats	4.21	160.2	160.4	2.81	154.7	154.9	3.56	158.2	158.4
	1.1.06	Fruits	2.88	172.8	182.7	2.90	176.7	188.6	2.89	174.6	185.5
	1.1.07	Vegetables	7.46	182.5	184.9	4.41	222.6	225.3	6.04	196.1	198.6
	1.1.08	Pulses and products	2.95	199.7	200.7	1.73	205.0	206.2	2.38	201.5	202.6
	1.1.09	Sugar and Confectionery	1.70	128.0	127.7	0.97	130.1	130.2	1.36	128.7	128.5
	1.1.10	Spices	3.11	236.3	231.8	1.79	228.2	224.7	2.50	233.6	229.4
	1.2.11	Non-alcoholic beverages	1.37	182.1	182.2	1.13	170.3	170.6	1.26	177.2	177.4
	1.1.12	Prepared meals, snacks, sweets etc.	5.56	195.9	196.2	5.54	204.6	204.9	5.55	199.9	200.2
1		Food and beverages	54.18	188.5	189.5	36.29	194.4	196.1	45.86	190.7	191.9
2		Pan, tobacco and intoxicants	3.26	204.0	204.9	1.36	210.2	211.1	2.38	205.7	206.6
	3.1.01	Clothing	6.32	195.8	196.2	4.72	185.8	186.2	5.58	191.9	192.3
	3.1.02	Footwear	1.04	191.1	191.1	0.85	172.3	172.8	0.95	183.3	183.5
3		Clothing and footwear	7.36	195.1	195.5	5.57	183.8	184.2	6.53	190.6	191.0
4		Housing	–	–	–	21.67	178.2	179.9	10.07	178.2	179.9
5		Fuel and light	7.94	181.0	179.2	5.58	167.4	165.5	6.84	175.8	174.0
	6.1.01	Household goods and services	3.75	183.3	183.7	3.87	174.0	174.4	3.80	178.9	179.3
	6.1.02	Health	6.83	194.3	194.9	4.81	189.1	189.7	5.89	192.3	192.9
	6.1.03	Transport and communication	7.60	172.0	171.8	9.73	161.9	161.4	8.59	166.7	166.3
	6.1.04	Recreation and amusement	1.37	177.8	178.1	2.04	172.8	173.0	1.68	175.0	175.2
	6.1.05	Education	3.46	186.1	186.7	5.62	181.2	181.8	4.46	183.2	183.8
	6.1.06	Personal care and effects	4.25	191.3	196.9	3.47	192.8	198.8	3.89	191.9	197.7
6		Miscellaneous	27.26	184.2	185.4	29.53	176.0	176.8	28.32	180.2	181.2
General Index (All Groups)			100.00	187.8	188.5	100.00	183.6	184.7	100.00	185.8	186.7
Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI)			47.25	187.8	188.9	29.62	193.4	195.4	39.06	189.8	191.2

Notes:

Prov. : Provisional.
CFPI : Out of 12 sub-groups contained in ‘Food and Beverages’ group, CFPI is based on ten sub-groups, excluding ‘Non-alcoholic beverages’ and ‘Prepared meals, snacks, sweets etc.’.
– : CPI (Rural) for housing is not compiled.

Annex II

All-India year-on-year inflation rates (%) for General, Group and Sub-group level CPI and CFPI numbers for April 2024 (Provisional) for Rural, Urban and Combined

(Base: 2012=100)

Group Code	Sub-group Code	Description	Rural			Urban			Combined
Group Code	Sub-group Code	Description	Apr. 23 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Inflation Rate (%)	Apr. 23 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Inflation Rate (%)	Apr. 23 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Inflation Rate (%)
*(1)*	*(2)*	*(3)*	*(4)*	*(5)*	*(6)*	*(7)*	*(8)*	*(9)*	*(10)*	*(11)*	*(12)*
	1.1.01	Cereals and products	173.3	188.8	8.94	174.8	188.9	8.07	173.8	188.8	8.63
	1.1.02	Meat and fish	206.9	223.0	7.78	213.7	232.8	8.94	209.3	226.4	8.17
	1.1.03	Egg	167.9	180.1	7.27	172.4	184.1	6.79	169.6	181.6	7.08
	1.1.04	Milk and products	178.2	183.6	3.03	178.8	184.0	2.91	178.4	183.7	2.97
	1.1.05	Oils and fats	178.5	160.4	-10.14	168.7	154.9	-8.18	174.9	158.4	-9.43
	1.1.06	Fruits	173.7	182.7	5.18	179.2	188.6	5.25	176.3	185.5	5.22
	1.1.07	Vegetables	142.8	184.9	29.48	179.9	225.3	25.24	155.4	198.6	27.80
	1.1.08	Pulses and products	172.8	200.7	16.15	174.7	206.2	18.03	173.4	202.6	16.84
	1.1.09	Sugar and Confectionery	120.4	127.7	6.06	123.1	130.2	5.77	121.3	128.5	5.94
	1.1.10	Spices	215.5	231.8	7.56	207.8	224.7	8.13	212.9	229.4	7.75
	1.2.11	Non-alcoholic beverages	178.2	182.2	2.24	165.5	170.6	3.08	172.9	177.4	2.60
	1.1.12	Prepared meals, snacks, sweets etc.	190.5	196.2	2.99	197.0	204.9	4.01	193.5	200.2	3.46
1		Food and beverages	175.5	189.5	7.98	182.1	196.1	7.69	177.9	191.9	7.87
2		Pan, tobacco and intoxicants	199.5	204.9	2.71	203.5	211.1	3.73	200.6	206.6	2.99
	3.1.01	Clothing	190.7	196.2	2.88	181.0	186.2	2.87	186.9	192.3	2.89
	3.1.02	Footwear	187.3	191.1	2.03	167.7	172.8	3.04	179.2	183.5	2.40
3		Clothing and footwear	190.2	195.5	2.79	178.9	184.2	2.96	185.7	191.0	2.85
4		Housing	–	–	–	175.2	179.9	2.68	175.2	179.9	2.68
5		Fuel and light	181.5	179.2	-1.27	182.1	165.5	-9.12	181.7	174.0	-4.24
	6.1.01	Household goods and services	179.1	183.7	2.57	169.6	174.4	2.83	174.6	179.3	2.69
	6.1.02	Health	187.2	194.9	4.11	181.5	189.7	4.52	185.0	192.9	4.27
	6.1.03	Transport and communication	169.4	171.8	1.42	160.1	161.4	0.81	164.5	166.3	1.09
	6.1.04	Recreation and amusement	173.2	178.1	2.83	168.8	173.0	2.49	170.7	175.2	2.64
	6.1.05	Education	179.4	186.7	4.07	174.2	181.8	4.36	176.4	183.8	4.20
	6.1.06	Personal care and effects	183.8	196.9	7.13	184.4	198.8	7.81	184.0	197.7	7.45
6		Miscellaneous	178.9	185.4	3.63	170.9	176.8	3.45	175.0	181.2	3.54
General Index (All Groups)			178.8	188.5	5.43	177.4	184.7	4.11	178.1	186.7	4.83
Consumer Food Price Index			173.7	188.9	8.75	180.0	195.4	8.56	175.9	191.2	8.70

Notes:

Prov. : Provisional.
– : CPI (Rural) for housing is not compiled.

Annex III

General CPI for States for Rural, Urban and Combined for March 2024 (Final) and April 2024 (Provisional)

(Base: 2012=100)

Sl. No.	Name of the State/UT	Rural			Urban			Combined
Sl. No.	Name of the State/UT	Weights	Mar. 24 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Weights	Mar. 24 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Weights	Mar. 24 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)
*(1)*	*(2)*	*(3)*	*(4)*	*(5)*	*(6)*	*(7)*	*(8)*	*(9)*	*(10)*	*(11)*
1	Andhra Pradesh	5.40	191.6	192.8	3.64	191.9	192.9	4.58	191.7	192.8
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0.14	190.4	191.6	0.06	—	—	0.10	190.4	191.6
3	Assam	2.63	189.4	190.0	0.79	184.8	185.9	1.77	188.5	189.2
4	Bihar	8.21	182.2	181.8	1.62	188.7	189.8	5.14	183.1	183.0
5	Chhattisgarh	1.68	177.4	179.0	1.22	174.5	176.2	1.46	176.3	177.9
6	Delhi	0.28	169.6	169.7	5.64	169.4	169.2	2.77	169.4	169.2
7	Goa	0.14	172.8	171.4	0.25	174.9	176.0	0.19	174.1	174.2
8	Gujarat	4.54	183.9	184.6	6.82	174.3	175.1	5.60	178.5	179.2
9	Haryana	3.30	188.9	190.4	3.35	177.8	178.8	3.32	183.7	185.0
10	Himachal Pradesh	1.03	173.9	175.5	0.26	178.7	180.4	0.67	174.8	176.4
11	Jharkhand	1.96	182.5	182.3	1.39	184.0	185.2	1.69	183.1	183.4
12	Karnataka	5.09	190.5	191.1	6.81	191.9	193.5	5.89	191.3	192.4
13	Kerala	5.50	193.4	196.5	3.46	191.1	193.6	4.55	192.6	195.5
14	Madhya Pradesh	4.93	184.7	185.2	3.97	187.4	188.0	4.48	185.8	186.4
15	Maharashtra	8.25	186.3	186.7	18.86	179.0	180.4	13.18	181.4	182.5
16	Manipur	0.23	218.6	218.6	0.12	182.3	183.8	0.18	207.1	207.6
17	Meghalaya	0.28	172.3	171.6	0.15	177.2	177.4	0.22	173.8	173.4
18	Mizoram	0.07	203.6	204.0	0.13	173.1	174.4	0.10	185.0	185.9
19	Nagaland	0.14	193.9	195.4	0.12	178.6	178.9	0.13	187.4	188.4
20	Odisha	2.93	188.8	190.5	1.31	181.3	182.6	2.18	186.7	188.3
21	Punjab	3.31	181.4	182.0	3.09	173.8	173.7	3.21	178.0	178.3
22	Rajasthan	6.63	184.9	185.3	4.23	183.6	184.0	5.51	184.4	184.8
23	Sikkim	0.06	196.3	196.1	0.03	184.7	185.5	0.05	192.5	192.6
24	Tamil Nadu	5.55	193.3	194.7	9.20	190.9	192.8	7.25	191.9	193.6
25	Telangana	3.16	201.8	203.2	4.41	195.0	195.7	3.74	198.1	199.1
26	Tripura	0.35	203.7	207.2	0.14	193.1	195.5	0.25	201.0	204.2
27	Uttar Pradesh	14.83	187.2	187.5	9.54	184.8	185.8	12.37	186.3	186.9
28	Uttarakhand	1.06	181.9	182.5	0.73	183.6	185.1	0.91	182.5	183.5
29	West Bengal	6.99	190.5	190.6	7.20	187.3	188.6	7.09	189.0	189.7
30	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	0.05	193.3	193.7	0.07	181.9	183.3	0.06	187.5	188.4
31	Chandigarh	0.02	182.5	183.1	0.34	172.0	173.7	0.17	172.6	174.2
32	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	0.02	173.7	173.8	0.04	180.7	181.0	0.03	178.4	178.6
33	Daman & Diu	0.02	187.2	186.7	0.02	181.5	186.7	0.02	184.8	186.7
34	Jammu & Kashmir*	1.14	196.8	197.0	0.72	191.4	192.7	0.94	194.9	195.5
35	Lakshadweep	0.01	191.0	193.9	0.01	173.4	177.2	0.01	182.0	185.4
36	Puducherry	0.08	195.3	195.3	0.27	190.1	190.7	0.17	191.4	191.9
All India		100.00	187.8	188.5	100.00	183.6	184.7	100.00	185.8	186.7

Notes:

Prov.: Provisional
–: indicates the receipt of price schedules is less than 80% of allocated schedules and therefore indices are not compiled.
*: Figures of this row pertain to the prices and weights of the combined Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir

and Ladakh (erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir).

Annex IV

Year-on-year inflation rates (%) of major^@ States for Rural, Urban and Combined for April 2024 (Provisional)

(Base: 2012=100)

Sl. No.	Name of the State/UT	Rural			Urban			Combined
Sl. No.	Name of the State/UT	Apr. 23 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Inflation Rate (%)	Apr. 23 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Inflation Rate (%)	Apr. 23 Index (Final)	Apr. 24 Index (Prov.)	Inflation Rate (%)
*(1)*	*(2)*	*(3)*	*(4)*	*(5)*	*(6)*	*(7)*	*(8)*	*(9)*	*(10)*	*(11)*
1	Andhra Pradesh	181.5	192.8	6.23	184.4	192.9	4.61	182.6	192.8	5.59
2	Assam	179.5	190.0	5.85	177.2	185.9	4.91	179.0	189.2	5.70
3	Bihar	172.7	181.8	5.27	180.1	189.8	5.39	173.8	183.0	5.29
4	Chhattisgarh	168.7	179.0	6.11	167.6	176.2	5.13	168.3	177.9	5.70
5	Delhi	166.1	169.7	2.17	165.6	169.2	2.17	165.6	169.2	2.17
6	Gujarat	176.5	184.6	4.59	167.9	175.1	4.29	171.6	179.2	4.43
7	Haryana	178.5	190.4	6.67	171.2	178.8	4.44	175.1	185.0	5.65
8	Himachal Pradesh	167.9	175.5	4.53	175.3	180.4	2.91	169.2	176.4	4.26
9	Jharkhand	174.5	182.3	4.47	179.6	185.2	3.12	176.4	183.4	3.97
10	Karnataka	178.9	191.1	6.82	185.5	193.5	4.31	182.4	192.4	5.48
11	Kerala	186.4	196.5	5.42	184.2	193.6	5.10	185.6	195.5	5.33
12	Madhya Pradesh	174.8	185.2	5.95	180.2	188.0	4.33	177.0	186.4	5.31
13	Maharashtra	180.1	186.7	3.66	174.0	180.4	3.68	176.0	182.5	3.69
14	Odisha	177.4	190.5	7.38	171.8	182.6	6.29	175.8	188.3	7.11
15	Punjab	174.9	182.0	4.06	167.1	173.7	3.95	171.4	178.3	4.03
16	Rajasthan	176.1	185.3	5.22	174.3	184.0	5.57	175.5	184.8	5.30
17	Tamil Nadu	184.2	194.7	5.70	184.7	192.8	4.39	184.5	193.6	4.93
18	Telangana	191.5	203.2	6.11	185.9	195.7	5.27	188.4	199.1	5.68
19	Uttar Pradesh	176.5	187.5	6.23	178.2	185.8	4.26	177.1	186.9	5.53
20	Uttarakhand	175.9	182.5	3.75	179.2	185.1	3.29	177.1	183.5	3.61
21	West Bengal	183.2	190.6	4.04	183.5	188.6	2.78	183.3	189.7	3.49
22	Jammu & Kashmir*	187.9	197.0	4.84	187.9	192.7	2.55	187.9	195.5	4.04
All India		178.8	188.5	5.43	177.4	184.7	4.11	178.1	186.7	4.83

Notes:

Prov. : Provisional.
* : Figures of this row pertain to the prices and weights of the combined Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh (erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir).
^@ : States having population more than 50 lakhs as per Population Census 2011.