September 20265.5%Compared with the same month last year
All items5.5%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks2.9%
Housing, water, electricity and gas1.1%
Transport17.7%
Last 12 months
September 20265.5%
August 20264.6%
July 20263.9%
June 20263.6%
May 20263.4%
April 20263.6%
March 20262.9%
February 20262.6%
January 20262.7%
December 20253.7%
November 20253.9%
October 20254.6%
September 20254.7%
Comparison with other European countries · September 2026
1. Sweden1.0%2. Switzerland1.2%3. Denmark2.1%4. Hungary2.1%5. Czechia2.2%6. Malta2.4%7. Finland2.7%8. Albania2.7%9. Latvia3.0%10. Netherlands3.0%11. Slovakia3.0%12. Estonia3.1%13. Germany3.3%14. France3.4%15. Norway3.4%16. North Macedonia3.5%17. Austria3.6%18. Portugal3.6%19. Slovenia3.7%20. Ireland3.8%21. Poland4.0%22. Italy4.2%23. Serbia4.2%24. Croatia4.3%25. Belgium4.5%26. Spain5.0%27. Greece5.1%28. Georgia5.1%29. Cyprus5.2%30. Luxembourg5.2%31. Iceland5.4%32. Montenegro5.5%33. Bulgaria5.6%34. Lithuania6.1%35. Romania6.5%36. Türkiye29.7%
Questions and answers
What is the inflation rate?
5.5% (September 2026, HICP, Eurostat).
What does this inflation figure measure?
The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: how much the prices of goods and services bought by households changed compared with a year earlier, measured the same way in every EU country.
Source: Eurostat prc_hicp_minr (HICP).