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Central banks around the world are reducing borrowing costs as global inflation eases from the massive highs reached in many countries in recent years.

FT Global Inflation and Interest Rate Tracker provides a regularly updated visual narrative of global consumer price inflation and central bank policy rates.

This page covers factors that influence policymakers’ decisions regarding borrowing costs and whether central banks have raised or reduced interest rates.

The increased borrowing costs have helped ease the fast pace of price growth that swept the world during the pandemic.

Although inflation in most countries has declined from its peak, many policymakers warn that the last step of a journey to central bank goals (2% in most developed countries) is the most difficult.

This page allows you to monitor inflation and interest rates in most individual countries.

The page also tracks closely monitored measurements for inflation and policy rates as well as signs of how they will evolve over the coming months.

The latest figures for the world’s largest economy show that inflation continues to rise in some countries, except for food and energy, which are key measures of underlying price pressures.

Wholesale energy costs provide a timely measure of the price pressures consumers may face in the coming months.

The rise in energy prices has been a major factor in inflation in many countries in recent years, but gas and electricity costs have retreated amid the energy crisis following the full-scale invasion of Russia’s Ukraine.

This page also tracks the yield on government bond yields over two years. This was strongly influenced by market expectations for interest rates at the time.

While housing costs have skyrocketed in many countries during the pandemic, high mortgage rates have slowed home prices growth in many countries.