Romania 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.
6.3%
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Jan 2002 to Aug 2026
Source: FRED series CP0000ROM086NEST · HICP, all items, year on year, from January 2002.
Romania Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Romania, the inflation rate fell by 2.2pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 8.5% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 4.0% in Aug 2021 to 14.6% in Nov 2022.
Its average since Jan 2002 is 6.4%, and the latest reading is below that.
Romania is 3rd 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
- CP0000ROM086NEST
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The National Institute of Statistics's headline is the national CPI, shown beside it, which the National Bank of Romania targets at 2.5% (plus or minus one point). The two differ more than in most EU countries because their weights differ.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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