Statistics Insights: Inflation is an interactive publication produced by the European Central Bank and the national central banks of the Eurosystem. The publication aims to make it easier to understand, use and compare euro area and national statistics. It presents the statistics visually, catering for colour blindness, uses reader-friendly terms, is digitally reusable via the embed function and is available in 23 EU languages.

Information on data

The data are updated in real time and available from the Statistical Data Warehouse.

The inflation data are produced by Eurostat, together with the national statistical institutes, and are available here.

The data for the second chart in Section 3.1 and the charts in Section 3.2 are produced by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and are available here.

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Cover photo © monticello, Xsandra, guenterguni, Rost-9D, scanrail, SergeiKorolko/iStock

Chapter 2.2 photo “Antique refrigerator” © jgroup/iStock

Chapter 2.2 photo “Modern household refrigerator with control display” © Grassetto/iStock

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