🇱🇹Lithuania inflation rate
released 19 Aug 2026 · data through July 2026 · next release expected 31 Aug 2026
Lithuania adopted the euro in 2015. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-harmonised measure that makes prices comparable across Europe — stands at 5.4% as of July 2026. That is 3.4 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 2.4 points above the eurozone average of 3.0%.
The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 3.8%, energy at 23.7%, food at 1.6% and services at 6.6%. The strongest pressure is in energy (23.7%), while food is the softest (1.6%).
Month on month the headline held from 5.4% to 5.4%, unchanged on the month.
As a more recent euro adopter still converging toward western-European income levels, Lithuania has tended to run inflation above the euro-area average — a structural pattern (faster catch-up growth lifting wages and services prices) seen across the bloc's central, eastern and Baltic members rather than a quirk of one month.
Lithuania ranks number 3 of 30 European economies by annual inflation, from highest to lowest, between Iceland and Bulgaria.
Lithuania's harmonised inflation is 5.4% as of July 2026 — abovethe European Central Bank's 2% target by 3.4 percentage points.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Lithuania's current inflation rate?
- Lithuania's annual inflation rate, measured by the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), is 5.4% as of July 2026.
- Is Lithuania's inflation above or below the ECB's 2% target?
- At 5.4%, it is 3.4 percentage points above the European Central Bank's 2% target.
- How does Lithuania's inflation compare with the rest of Europe?
- Lithuania ranks number 3 of 30 European economies by inflation, 2.4 points above the eurozone average of 3.0%.
- Did Lithuania's inflation rise or fall last month?
- Month on month, the headline rate held from 5.4% to 5.4% in July 2026.