Greece Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the EU's harmonised index (HICP), the measure the ECB uses.
3.7%
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Jan 1997 to Aug 2026
Source: FRED series CP0000GRM086NEST · HICP, all items, year on year.
Greece Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Greece, the inflation rate rose by 0.7pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 3.1% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.2% in Aug 2021 to 12.1% in Sep 2022.
Its average since Jan 1997 is 2.5%, and the latest reading is above that.
Greece is 13th of 39 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
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- Source
- FRED
- Series
- CP0000GRM086NEST
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
ELSTAT's national CPI, Greece's headline figure, can differ by a few tenths: HICP weights include spending in Greece by visitors, which matters in a tourism economy, while the national CPI covers resident households only. The European Central Bank targets 2% inflation for the euro area as a whole.
Data refreshed 2026-10-08. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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