Czechia Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the EU's harmonised index (HICP), shown for comparison with other EU countries.
1.5%
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Jan 1997 to Aug 2026
Source: FRED series CP0000CZM086NEST · HICP, all items, year on year.
Czechia Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Czechia, the inflation rate fell by 0.8pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 2.3% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.0% in Feb 2026 to 19.1% in Jan 2023.
Its average since Jan 1997 is 3.4%, and the latest reading is below that.
Czechia is 33rd of 40 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- FRED
- Series
- CP0000CZM086NEST
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Czech Statistical Office's headline is the national CPI, shown beside it, which the Czech National Bank targets at 2%. The two can differ by a few tenths, mainly because the national CPI includes owner-occupied housing costs and the HICP does not.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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