Hungary 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.
1.8%
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Jan 1997 to Aug 2026
Source: FRED series CP0000HUM086NEST · HICP, all items, year on year.
Hungary Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hungary, the inflation rate fell by 2.4pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 4.2% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.6% in Feb 2026 to 26.2% in Jan 2023.
Its average since Jan 1997 is 6.1%, and the latest reading is below that.
Hungary is 35th of 43 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
- CP0000HUM086NEST
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office's headline is the national CPI, shown beside it, which the Magyar Nemzeti Bank targets at 3%. The two can differ by a few tenths because their weights differ.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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