Inflation Peaks — Time Series of India
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Loading the series Hold Space to drive<br>Release to coast. Space does the same thing as the bar.<br>The rack<br>Six stretches to drive<br>Six stretches of the series. Pick one and it loads into the machine<br>above. Every card is drawn to the same vertical scale, so their<br>heights are comparable.
The 2020s 2020–2026 7.8% peak Never driven<br>The 2010s 2010–2019 16.2% peak Never driven<br>The 2000s 2000–2009 15.0% peak Never driven<br>The nineties 1990–1999 19.7% peak Never driven<br>The eighties 1980–1989 14.4% peak Never driven<br>The seventies 1969–1979 34.7% peak Never driven<br>About this stretch<br>The pandemic and then the war, over the lowest hills in the series. This is where you learn the controls.<br>78Months<br>7.8%Peak<br>What happened here<br>April 2020 7.2% Prices were collected in fewer markets under the lockdown. MOSPI published an index for April and May 2020 but no rate; these two months are computed from those indices.<br>April 2022 7.8% War in Ukraine, and the end of the cheap-energy years.
Double digits after the crisis, then the long taper into inflation targeting and a decade that ends quiet.<br>120Months<br>16.2%Peak<br>What happened here<br>January 2010 16.2% Food prices after the 2009 drought, on top of a post-crisis stimulus.<br>November 2013 11.5% The last stretch before inflation targeting. This is roughly where the RBI decided.
Flatter country than anything before it, ending in a climb into the food-price surge.<br>120Months<br>15.0%Peak
The highest average inflation in the series. A balance-of-payments crisis at one end, an onion spike at the other.<br>120Months<br>19.7%Peak<br>What happened here<br>August 1991 14.2% The balance-of-payments crisis. The rupee was devalued twice that July.<br>November 1998 19.7% The onion spike. A failed crop took vegetable prices up and a state election with them.
The grind. A second oil shock, then years pinned near nine and ten with no relief.<br>120Months<br>14.4%Peak<br>What happened here<br>November 1980 11.7% The second oil shock, arriving after the revolution in Iran.
Oil shock and drought. The tallest wall in the series, and the deepest canyon right behind it.<br>125Months<br>34.7%Peak<br>What happened here<br>October 1973 21.5% The first oil shock. OPEC quadrupled the crude price over the winter.<br>September 1974 34.7% The highest reading in the series. A failed monsoon on top of the oil shock.<br>May 1976 -11.3% The deepest fall. Two good harvests put prices below where they stood a year earlier.
Your score Inflation Peaks index score<br>Provisional Share<br>Drive a stretch and it reports here.
ComponentWeightBest runModeContributes<br>The 2020s 13.4%<br>The 2010s 12.8%<br>The 2000s 11.8%<br>The nineties 19.2%<br>The eighties 15.0%<br>The seventies 27.8%<br>Total 100.0%<br>How it adds up. Each stretch scores the share of it you drove,<br>times its mode. The index is those scores averaged over the stretches<br>that have reported, weighted by the Weight column, so a first weak run<br>on a new stretch can pull it down.
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Labour Bureau CPI-IW to December 2013 — a different instrument, covering industrial-worker households — with year-on-year computed from the published index and linked across its earlier bases with factors 4.93 and 4.63. MOSPI CPI Combined (All India, General) from January 2014, rebased 2024=100 in January 2026. April 2020 and May 2020 carry rates computed from MOSPI's published limited-collection indices, which the ministry issued without rates of their own.
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