Ireland Inflation Rate (National Definition)
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the Central Statistics Office's own consumer price index, the figure quoted domestically.
4.1%
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Jan 2015 to Sep 2026
Source: OECD prices database · CPI, national definition, all items, year on year, as published by the Central Statistics Office.
Ireland Inflation Rate (National Definition) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Ireland, the inflation rate rose by 1.4pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 2.7% in Sep 2025.
It is the highest reading since Jan 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.7% in Oct 2024 to 9.3% in Oct 2022.
Its average since Jan 2015 is 2.1%, and the latest reading is above 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
Unlike the EU-harmonised HICP it includes mortgage interest, so the two diverge when interest rates move.
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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