Romania Inflation Rate (National Definition)
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the National Institute of Statistics's national CPI, the headline figure and the measure the National Bank of Romania targets at 2.5% (plus or minus one point).
8.2%
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Jan 2002 to Jul 2026
Source: IMF consumer price index dataset · CPI, national definition, all items, year on year, as published by the National Institute of Statistics, from January 2002. The IMF publishes it about a month after INS, so the latest month here can be one behind INS's release.
Romania Inflation Rate (National Definition) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Romania, the inflation rate rose by 0.4pp over the year to Jul 2026, from 7.8% in Jul 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 3.4% in Apr 2025 to 16.8% in Nov 2022.
Its average since Jan 2002 is 6.6%, and the latest reading is above that.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- consumer
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not stated in the source citation
- Latest observation
- Jul 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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