October 20265.4%Compared with the same month last year
All items5.4%
Last 12 months
October 20265.4%
September 20265.2%
August 20265.2%
July 20264.4%
June 20264.1%
May 20263.5%
April 20263.0%
March 20261.5%
February 20260.9%
January 20261.2%
December 20250.1%
November 20250.1%
October 20250.2%
Comparison with other European countries · October 2026
1. Malta2.3%2. Germany2.8%3. Slovakia2.9%4. Latvia3.0%5. Netherlands3.3%6. Finland3.4%7. Austria3.5%8. Estonia3.6%9. France3.8%10. Slovenia3.8%11. Portugal3.9%12. Ireland4.0%13. Croatia4.4%14. Spain4.9%15. Luxembourg4.9%16. Belgium5.2%17. Cyprus5.4%18. Greece5.6%19. Italy5.6%20. Bulgaria6.0%21. Lithuania6.1%
Questions and answers
What is the inflation rate?
5.4% (October 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).