France CPI month-on-month: overall excepting fresh products
France CPI month-on-month: overall excepting fresh products stood at -0.3% in Sep 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Consumer price index table (Value · Monthly), with a complete series running from Feb 1998 to Sep 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Consumer price index table
| Indicator | 09-2026 | 08-2026 | 07-2026 | 06-2026 | 05-2026 | 04-2026 | 03-2026 | 02-2026 | 01-2026 | 12-2025 | |
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| Month-on-month change | |||||||||||
| All households - Overall excepting fresh products | -0.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | -0.2 | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 0.6 | -0.4 | 0.1 | |
| All households - Food including restaurants, canteens and cafés | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | -0.2 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Understanding france CPI month-on-month: overall excepting fresh products
Unprocessed agricultural produce—such as fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, and meat—is extracted from the aggregate basket to produce this specialized monthly metric. Perishable items experience extreme weather-driven supply volatility that can dominate short-term inflation readings. By removing these goods, the series highlights the stickier components of the consumer market, including processed foods, manufactured goods, and services.
Evaluating this sequential movement requires attention to seasonal harvest cycles that have been removed from this specific calculation but still affect the broader headline index. Analysts rely on this figure to gauge underlying persistence in price setting without the noise of perishable food volatility. Early data points are provisional and subject to routine refinement in subsequent releases.
Frequently asked questions
- Which exact products are stripped out of this calculation?
- Unprocessed items like raw fruits, fresh vegetables, fresh fish, and unpreserved meats are excluded.
- How does this differ from an index that excludes all food?
- This series keeps processed, canned, and packaged foods, removing only the volatile fresh and perishable categories.
- Why is removing fresh products useful for analysts?
- It eliminates temporary weather-driven supply shocks that can temporarily distort true underlying price trends.