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Inflation in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of inflation news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about inflation, with its date, location, tone, priority score, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, inflation took 69.6 of every 10,000 news articles in 2022, 6.3 times its share in 2019 (11.05 per 10,000) and the highest annual share between 2019 and 2025.
Basis: Annual inflation articles (opening text matches inflation, hyperinflation, disinflation, stagflation or consumer price index) divided by all articles in the index for the same year.
July 2022 was the month in which inflation took its largest share of global news between January 2019 and July 2026, at 92.47 articles per 10,000 news articles.
Basis: Monthly inflation articles per 10,000 news articles, every month from January 2019 to July 2026; the six months May–October 2022 were the six highest.
By 2025 inflation's share of news had fallen to 28.66 articles per 10,000, 58.8% below its 2022 level but still 2.59 times its 2019 share.
Basis: Annual shares per 10,000 news articles for the complete years 2019–2025.
Inflation took a 31.8% smaller share of news in 2020 than in 2019 (7.54 against 11.05 articles per 10,000), and March 2020 was the lowest month of the period at 5.31 per 10,000.
Basis: Annual and monthly inflation articles divided by all articles in the index.
Of inflation articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 64.5% were negative in tone, 1.92 times the 33.6% negative share across all news in the same index.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.9% of sampled articles carry a label.
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Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 60,373 | 45.47% | 0.94 |
| India | 11,949 | 9.0% | 0.68 |
| United Kingdom | 9,149 | 6.89% | 1.18 |
| China | 5,256 | 3.96% | 1.5 |
| Nigeria | 4,035 | 3.04% | 2.22 |
| Australia | 3,187 | 2.4% | 1.12 |
| Canada | 3,103 | 2.34% | 1.09 |
| Ukraine | 2,833 | 2.13% | 3.97 |
| Japan | 2,261 | 1.7% | 1.6 |
| Germany | 2,201 | 1.66% | 1.41 |
| Singapore | 1,857 | 1.4% | 1.57 |
| France | 1,759 | 1.32% | 0.67 |
| Iran | 1,667 | 1.26% | 4.2 |
| Pakistan | 1,638 | 1.23% | 2.72 |
| Brazil | 1,624 | 1.22% | 1.42 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "inflation" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Inflation in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/inflation/