Euro Area Inflation Rate

Last Release

Sep 30, 2025

Actual

2.2

Units In

2.1

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Oct 31, 2025

Time to Release

13 Days 9 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
10.6 Oct 2022	-0.6 Jul 2009	2.25 %	1991-2025	Eurostat

In Euro Area, the inflation rate is calculated using the weighted average of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Price (HICP) aggregates. The main components of the HICP are: food, alcohol and tobacco (19 percent of the total weight), energy (11 percent), non-energy industrial goods (29 percent) and services (41 percent). The HICP aggregates are computed as the weighted average of each country’s HICP components. The weight of a country is its share of household final monetary consumption expenditure in the total of the country’s group. The local HICPs are supplied to the Eurostat by the National Statistical Institutes.

Latest Updates

Euro area consumer price inflation was confirmed at 2.2% year-on-year in September 2025, up from 2.0% over the previous three months and slightly above the ECB’s 2.0% mid-point target. Services inflation edged higher to 3.2% from 3.1% in August, while energy costs declined only 0.4%, compared with a 2.0% drop previously. Prices for food, alcohol, and tobacco rose more slowly at 3.0%, down from 3.2%, reflecting weaker unprocessed food inflation. Non-energy industrial goods inflation remained steady at 0.8%. Meanwhile, core inflation—which excludes energy, food, alcohol, and tobacco—rose to 2.4%, above the preliminary 2.3% estimate and reversing an over three-year low of 2.3% in August, signaling persistent underlying price pressures.