United States Inflation Rate in 2018
Inflation rate in the United States was 1.91% in 2018. That is 0.20 less than it was in the preceding 2017 and 0.37% less than in the following year of 2019.
In 2018 USA ranked #9 in the world by yearly inflation rate.
Month over month inflation rate is calculated for just the subject month itself - from the first to the last day of that month:
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total | |
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Month to month, % | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.23 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.18 | -0.33 | -0.32 | 1.91 |

Year to year inflation rate is calculated for 12 months: 11 months preceding the subject one and the subject month itself:
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total | |
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Year over year (12 months), % | 2.07 | 2.21 | 2.36 | 2.46 | 2.80 | 2.87 | 2.95 | 2.70 | 2.28 | 2.52 | 2.18 | 1.91 | 1.91 |

Progressive inflation rate is an incremental year to date inflation that sums rates from the beginning of the calendar year to the end of the subject month:
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total | |
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Progressive (year to date), % | 0.54 | 1.00 | 1.23 | 1.63 | 2.05 | 2.22 | 2.22 | 2.28 | 2.40 | 2.58 | 2.24 | 1.91 | 1.91 |

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