Average of the panel (2025)
3.9
percent, annual inflation
-0.5pp vs 2024
Highest
34.9
Turkey
Lowest
0.1
Switzerland
Countries ranked
35
with a published figure

Data

Inflation Rate in Europe by Country (2025) — source data. Eurostat.
# Country % annual inflation Change vs 2024
1 Turkey 34.9 -23.6pp
2 Romania 6.8 +0.9pp
3 Estonia 4.8 +1.1pp
4 Hungary 4.4 +0.7pp
5 Croatia 4.4 +0.4pp
6 North Macedonia 4.3 +0.1pp
7 Slovakia 4.2 +1.1pp
8 Serbia 4.1 -0.7pp
9 Montenegro 4.1 +0.5pp
10 Latvia 3.8 +2.5pp
11 Iceland 3.7 -0.8pp
12 Austria 3.6 +0.7pp
13 Bulgaria 3.5 +0.9pp
14 Lithuania 3.4 +2.6pp
15 Poland 3.4 -0.3pp
16 Belgium 3 -1.3pp
17 Netherlands 3 -0.2pp
18 Greece 2.9 -0.1pp
19 Norway 2.8 -0.1pp
20 Spain 2.7 -0.2pp
21 Sweden 2.6 +0.6pp
22 Luxembourg 2.5 +0.3pp
23 Slovenia 2.5 +0.5pp
24 Malta 2.4 unchanged
25 Albania 2.3 -0.2pp
26 Czechia 2.3 -0.4pp
27 Germany 2.2 -0.2pp
28 Portugal 2.2 -0.5pp
29 Ireland 2.1 +0.7pp
30 Denmark 1.8 +0.6pp
31 Finland 1.8 +0.8pp
32 Italy 1.6 +0.5pp
33 France 0.9 -1.4pp
34 Cyprus 0.8 -1.4pp
35 Switzerland 0.1 -1pp

About this Dataset

Annual average HICP inflation in 2025 runs from 0.1% in Switzerland to 34.9% in Turkey. Strip out Turkey, whose currency crisis puts it in a different category, and the range narrows to 6.8% in Romania at the top. The median of 2.9% sits close to the European Central Bank's target.

The 2022 peak is over, but the convergence is incomplete. Central and eastern European countries still run one to four percentage points above the euro-area core, three years after the energy shock that started it.

The persistent gap has a specific cause: food and services weigh more heavily in consumption baskets at lower income levels, and both have been slower to disinflate than energy. Romania, Estonia, Hungary and Croatia sit at the top for exactly that reason. At the other end, France at 0.9% and Cyprus at 0.8% reflect energy price regulation and base effects working in the opposite direction.

Every row is the figure published for 2025; no value is carried over from an adjacent year to fill a gap. The chart tracks a fixed panel of 32 countries: those reporting in every year from 2006. The line therefore moves because the countries moved, not because the sample changed. The annual rate on this page is calculated as the change in each country's annual average HICP against the previous year, which is the standard Eurostat annual inflation measure.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Turkey, at 34.9% in 2025 — an outlier several times larger than any other country here, and the product of a currency crisis rather than of the same cost pressures affecting the rest of the continent. Excluding Turkey, Romania was highest at 6.8%, followed by Estonia, Hungary and Croatia.

Switzerland, at 0.1%, with Cyprus, France and Italy also below the 2% target the European Central Bank sets for the euro area. Switzerland's persistently low inflation reflects a strong franc, which suppresses imported prices, and a large share of administered prices in the consumer basket.

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices is compiled to a single EU-wide methodology covering which items are in the basket, how they are weighted and how owner-occupied housing is treated. National CPI measures differ on all three points — the UK's and Germany's historic indices treat housing costs quite differently, for instance — so headline national inflation figures are not directly comparable. HICP exists to make this ranking possible, and it is the measure the ECB targets.