Belgium Inflation Rate, Month on Month
How much consumer prices changed in the month, on the EU's harmonised measure.
2.0%
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Feb 1996 to Aug 2026
Source: Derived from FRED series CP0000BEM086NEST (Eurostat) · HICP, all items, change on the previous month.
Belgium Inflation Rate, Month on Month in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Belgium, the inflation rate, month on month rose by 0.5pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 1.5% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −1.6% in Jan 2023 to 2.7% in Oct 2022.
Its average since Feb 1996 is 0.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- Derived from FRED series CP0000BEM086NEST (Eurostat)
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
A monthly change is not the annual rate divided by twelve: it is the change on the month before, so it moves with one-off price changes that the annual rate smooths out. Belgium's HICP swings strongly in January and July, when the sales start, and recovers the month after.
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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