Which way it moved is what Issue 1 publishes today. Where it actually sits
compares each number with a benchmark — the RBI's inflation target, the pace of the
budget year, months of import cover. Switch between them.
Indicator
Latest
Recent trend
Score
provisional — this number will be revised.
Rows marked ↔ are where the two readings disagree most.
Step three
What is your inflation?
The official 4.38% describes an average household that may look nothing like yours.
Shift the spending shares below and the same official price data produces your number.
Shares are rescaled to 100% as you move them. Built from the six categories the
dataset publishes a rate for — the official basket carries a few more.
Your inflation
Honest notes
What this page cannot yet tell you
Of the 34 indicators Issue 1 scores, only some can be given a benchmark today.
Rather than invent the rest, they are left blank and marked.
have a benchmark now — an official target, the budget's own pace, or import cover
need long history pulled from the source archives before "normal" can be defined
have no defensible benchmark, or are missing from the dataset altogether
Three specific things the authors should know:
Eight of the 34 scored indicators are not in the monthly dataset at all —
rural and urban CPI, air passengers, bank credit, portfolio flows and rupee volatility
among them. They were scored in Issue 1 from another source.
The monthly sheet holds 17 months, and six of the CPI components only start in
January 2026. That is enough for a trend line, not enough to say what is normal.
Issue 1's Table 14 reports the fiscal deficit under a column headed Level, but
the printed figure is a month-on-month change. May 2026's actual level is
₹1,62,354 crore, not −1,99,949.