France Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
3.4%
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Explore the full France economy15 live indicators on one dashboard, from growth and prices to jobs, trade and public finances. Updated automatically from official sources.Inflation Rate
Jan 1997 to Sep 2026
Source: FRED series CP0000FRM086NEST · HICP, all items, year on year.
France Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In France, the inflation rate rose by 2.3pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 1.1% in Sep 2025.
It is the highest reading since Dec 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.4% in Jan 2026 to 7.3% in Feb 2023.
Its average since Jan 1997 is 1.8%, and the latest reading is above that.
France is 36th 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
- FRED
- Series
- CP0000FRM086NEST
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The European Central Bank targets 2% inflation for the euro area as a whole.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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