Hungary Inflation Rate (National Definition)
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the Hungarian Central Statistical Office's national CPI, the headline figure and the measure the Magyar Nemzeti Bank targets at 3%.
1.5%
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Jan 2015 to Sep 2026
Source: OECD prices database · CPI, national definition, all items, year on year, computed from the OECD's copy of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office's index, from 2015. It can differ by 0.1 from the rate KSH publishes (September 2026: 1.54% here, 1.6% in KSH's release), because the index is rebased and rounded differently.
Hungary Inflation Rate (National Definition) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hungary, the inflation rate fell by 2.8pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 4.3% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.2% in Jul 2026 to 25.7% in Jan 2023.
Its average since Jan 2015 is 5.0%, and the latest reading is below that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- prices
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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