Japan: food consumer price index

In 2021, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of food in Japan remained at a similar level as the base year 2020, with 100 index points. The CPI implies that food prices for Japanese households has been on an upward trend in recent years.

Consumer Price Index (CPI) of food in Japan from 2017 to 2021

Characteristic	Consumer price index (100 = 2020)
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Release date

November 2022

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

2017 to 2021

Special properties

the source uses 2020 as base year with an index of 100 points

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the Consumer Price Index has been compiled monthly by the Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for the purpose of measuring changes of various goods and services purchased by households all over Japan, thereby analyzing the movement of prices in time series. The year for the base and weights of current index is 2020, and in principle the index is compiled, based on retail prices of each municipality and item obtained from the Retail Price Survey, using the Laspeyres-type formula.

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