Long-run consumer price index (monthly, 63 economies)
BIS long series on consumer prices: index of the average change in the price of consumer items (goods and services) purchased by households, index 2010 = 100, based on regular surveys of representative consumption baskets. Bank for International Settlements, BIS Data Portal.
Source: Bank for International Settlements48,590 rowsUpdated: 9/22/2026
inflationcpipriceslong-run
Quality
96.9
Attribution
Bank for International Settlements
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation period (the TIME_PERIOD column of the BIS SDMX-CSV response). Monthly series use YYYY-MM; quarterly series use YYYY-QN, stored as the first day of the quarter. |
| series_id | string | BIS area code, e.g. 'US': the unique identifier of the series in the BIS Data Portal. |
| series_label | string | English economy name from the BIS's own CL_AREA codelist. |
| value | float | Observed consumer price index for the economy and month (the OBS_VALUE column). Unit 628: index, 2010 = 100. |
Sample rows
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-01 | AE | United Arab Emirates | 93.692211 |
| 2008-02-01 | AE | United Arab Emirates | 94.207061 |
| 2008-03-01 | AE | United Arab Emirates | 94.700897 |
| 2008-04-01 | AE | United Arab Emirates | 95.972261 |
| 2008-05-01 | AE | United Arab Emirates | 96.949426 |
Download sample data
Download the full sample snapshot for this dataset (sample rows, not the complete dataset).
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bis/bis_long_run_consumer_prices" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bis/bis_long_run_consumer_prices").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bis/bis_long_run_consumer_prices
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.