Eurozone Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising across the euro area compared with a year ago.
3.8%
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Dec 2000 to Sep 2026
Source: Eurostat prc_hicp_minr (RCH_A) · HICP, all items, euro area EA21 (today's 21 members), annual rate of change as published, monthly.
Eurozone Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the Eurozone, the inflation rate rose by 1.6pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 2.2% in Sep 2025.
It is the highest reading since Sep 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.7% in Sep 2024 to 10.7% in Oct 2022.
Its average since Dec 2000 is 2.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
The Eurozone is 28th of 62 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Series
- prc_hicp_minr
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The ECB targets 2% inflation.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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