FRED PPIACO — Daily CSV Download (US Producer Price Index

The Producer Price Index measures prices at the wholesale/producer level — before they reach consumers. PPI leads CPI by 1–3 months, making it a pipeline inflation indicator. How pipeline pressures translate into headline inflation is mapped in the complete guide to inflation. The PPI captures commodity input costs, supply chain pressures, and corporate margin dynamics that eventually flow through to consumer prices.

Dataset: US Producer Price Index — PPI (1913–2026) · Updated —

Source: FRED series PPIACO · Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) via FRED

Macro Takeaway

Dataset Overview

Dataset Variables

The CSV and Excel files contain the following columns.

Column names match the CSV headers exactly.

Download the Complete Dataset

The full dataset is available in CSV and Excel formats.

FRED Direct CSV Access

The underlying data is available from FRED under series code PPIACO:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=PPIACO

Direct CSV Access — Eco3min Structured Dataset

https://eco3min.fr/dataset/us-ppi.csv

This URL returns the complete dataset in CSV format. It can be used directly in pandas, R, curl, or any data tool.

Using the Dataset in Python

import pandas as pd

url = "https://eco3min.fr/dataset/us-ppi.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(url, parse_dates=["date"])

print(df.head())
print(df["ppi_index"].describe())

Using the Dataset in R

library(readr)

url <- "https://eco3min.fr/dataset/us-ppi.csv"
df <- read_csv(url)

head(df)
summary(df$ppi_index)

Both examples load the dataset directly from the URL — no download or API key required.

Methodology

FRED series PPIACO — Producer Price Index for All Commodities. One of the oldest continuous US economic series (since 1913). Covers raw materials, intermediate goods, and finished goods at the producer level.

This dataset is updated monthly (~2 weeks after reference month) via automated pull from the FRED API.

Historical Regimes

Historical regime analysis for this dataset will be added in a future update. The key stats block above provides immediate context for the current reading relative to the full historical distribution.

Related Macroeconomic Datasets

PPI is the upstream signal in the inflation pipeline: commodity prices → producer prices → consumer prices. Divergences between PPI and CPI reveal whether margin compression or expansion is occurring at the corporate level.

Related Research

PPI spikes have historically coincided with commodity-driven inflation episodes — and real rate regime transitions. The 110+ year history spans every major inflation era.

Macroeconomic Dataset Hub

This dataset is part of the Eco3min macro-financial data repository.

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Sources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) via FRED

Dataset Reference

Eco3min Research. (2026). US Producer Price Index — PPI (1913–2026).<br> https://eco3min.fr/en/us-producer-price-index-dataset/