🇦🇹Austria inflation rate

Austria joined the euro at its launch in 1999. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-wide measure the European Central Bank targets at 2% — stands at 3.7% as of May 2026. That is 1.7 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 0.5 points above the euro-area average of 3.2%.

The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 3.4%, energy at 9.6%, food at 2.1% and services at 4.7%. The strongest pressure is in energy (9.6%), while food is the softest (2.1%).

Month on month the headline rose from 3.4% to 3.7%, extending the climb.