Open data: every euroflation series as CSV

Data dictionary

• Countries use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, so Greece is GR (Eurostat writes EL). EA21 is the euro area and EU27 the European Union. geographies.csv maps every code to its Eurostat and ECB equivalent.
• In Eurostat series, EA21 is Eurostat's aggregate for the 21 current euro-area members, kept on that fixed membership for the whole history (HICP from December 2000). In ECB series it is the ECB's euro area in its changing composition (ECB code U2).
• is_flash marks HICP values that euroflation judged to be flash estimates, because the source was updated before the 10th of the following month. The final release replaces them. It is a rule of thumb, not a flag published by Eurostat.
• Publishers revise their figures. euroflation re-checks the latest periods of every series each day; older history is refreshed when a series is reloaded in full. retrieved_on tells you when each row was last checked.
• The HICP moved to a new classification (ECOICOP 2) in 2026. Values come from Eurostat's current dataset, prc_hicp_minr; where it has no value for an early period, from the discontinued prc_hicp_manr.
• The ECB policy-rate files have one row per change: each rate applies from period_start until the next row.

Metadata files

datapackage.json

A Frictionless Data Package (v2) with every column's type and meaning, the licences and the sources. The frictionless tools for Python and R read it directly.

catalog.csv

One row per file: title, unit, frequency, source dataset with its DOI, coverage and row count.

geographies.csv

Every geography code with its name, euro membership, currency, central bank, inflation target and the matching Eurostat and ECB codes.

Licence

How to cite

Text (APA 7)

euroflation. (2026). euroflation: Euro-area inflation, ECB rates and economic indicators (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. https://euroflation.com/data. Retrieved [date].

BibTeX

@misc{euroflation_data,
  author       = {{euroflation}},
  title        = {euroflation: Euro-area inflation, ECB rates and economic indicators},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  howpublished = {\url{https://euroflation.com/data}},
  note         = {Data set. Compilation and derived series CC BY 4.0; official figures from Eurostat, the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and the ECB under their reuse terms. Accessed [date]}
}

Attribution lines

For a single series, cite the upstream publisher as well.

Data: euroflation.com/data (compilation CC BY 4.0); Source: Eurostat, European Commission, ECB statistics.

Source: Eurostat, prc_hicp_minr (https://doi.org/10.2908/PRC_HICP_MINR), accessed [date] via euroflation.com/data.

Source: ECB statistics (ECB Data Portal, IRS.M.IT.L.L40.CI.0000.EUR.N.Z), via euroflation.com/data.

10-year spread over the German Bund: euroflation calculation from ECB statistics (IRS), euroflation.com/data, CC BY 4.0.

Updates and stability

New data is collected twice a day, at about 11:00 and 16:00 UTC. Each file is rebuilt after new data arrives, usually within minutes of the next request for it; that request may still receive the previous copy. A browser or network cache may keep an older copy for a few hours, so check retrieved_on.

Stability promise

1. v1 is the schema version, not a data vintage. Inside v1, columns are never renamed, removed or reordered, a column never changes meaning or unit, and file names never change. New indicators arrive as new files. A new column may only be added at the end, announced in the changelog.
2. A breaking change ships as /data/v2/ next to v1, and v1 keeps being served for at least 24 months with a deprecation notice.
3. File names are indicator codes (hicp_yoy, bond_spread_bund), which are never renamed.
4. A discontinued indicator keeps its URL and its frozen history, marked discontinued in catalog.csv.
5. No query strings or filters: every file is one fixed URL.

Changelog

• v1.0.0, September 2026: first release.

Questions and corrections

Found an error, or need a series we do not carry? Email [email protected]. How each figure is sourced is on the sources page.