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EU economic statistics · Eurostat HICP annual inflation

Annual inflation in Germany was 2.9% in August 2026, Eurostat reports

Eurostat reports all-items HICP annual inflation of 2.9% for Germany in August 2026.

Eurostat reports annual inflation of 2.9% for Germany in August 2026, measured by the all-items Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP).

That is 0.1 percentage points higher than the 2.8% Eurostat reports for July 2026. Both figures are rates expressed in percent, so the difference between them is measured in percentage points, not in percent.

Eurostat flags the August 2026 figure as “estimated”. The figure may change when Eurostat revises it.

The annual rate of change compares the index for the month with the index for the same month one year earlier. “All items” means the full HICP basket, not a selected part of it.

This brief reports the figure Eurostat published and its comparison with the preceding month. It does not explain why the figure moved, and it does not attribute the movement to any policy, event or decision.

Times

These are different things and are not interchangeable.

Reporting period
2026-08
Source last revised
1 September 2026, 21:00 UTC
Published here
12 September 2026, 01:35 UTC

Evidence

Record identifier
prc_hicp_minr:DE:2026-08
Retrieved
12 September 2026, 00:58 UTC
Snapshot checksum
d0d43d829c1cc9a60bafe663e92526cf4282bcb86942463f8097ddc4e556ba02
Attribution
Source: Eurostat, dataset prc_hicp_minr. — Eurostat copyright and reuse notice
Where each figure above comes from (5 values)
ValueAs publishedOriginSource field or calculation
Annual inflation, Germany, 2026-08 2.9 % field value[offset(geo=DE, time=2026-08, freq=M, coicop18=TOTAL, unit=RCH_A)]
All-items HICP on the ECOICOP ver.2 classification, annual rate of change: the index for the month against the same month one year earlier.
Observation flag estimated field status[offset(geo=DE, time=2026-08)]
Eurostat flag preserved verbatim; absent means unflagged.
Reporting period 2026-08 field dimension.time.category.index
Previous month (2026-07) 2.8 % field value[offset(geo=DE, time=2026-07)]
Same dataset, same filters, immediately preceding month.
Change on the previous month 0.1 percentage points calculation round(value - previous_value, 1)
Both figures are rates expressed in percent, so their difference is in percentage points, not percent.

Wording template eurostat_inflation version 1.0.

Revision history

  • 12 September 2026, 00:58 UTC — First publication

    Assembled from the source record listed under evidence. This record predates the start of this service's coverage and was added when the source was first read.

Limits of this brief

All-items HICP annual inflation on the ECOICOP ver.2 classification, for nine EU reporting areas. Every figure is the one Eurostat published. Two geography labels are shortened so that a headline is readable — Eurostat's own label is shown on the brief itself in every case, and no code or figure is altered. Month-on-month differences are given in percentage points, never in percent, because the figures are already rates. A comparison is omitted entirely whenever Eurostat flags either month as a break in series or a change of definition. Provisional and estimated flags are carried into the wording. No explanation of why a figure moved is offered, and none should be inferred from the ordering of these pages.

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