Consumer inflation expectations (1 year)

How much consumers expect prices to rise over the next year (University of Michigan survey). Expectations matter because they can become self-fulfilling through wage demands and pricing.

4.6%

Sep 2026

+0.6 ppvs Aug−0.1 ppvs a year agoNo new data since last update

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This is proprietary data (University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers). We report the latest headline figure; see the publisher for the full series.

Source: University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers