🇧🇬Bulgaria inflation rate
released 19 Aug 2026 · data through July 2026 · next release expected 31 Aug 2026
Bulgaria adopted the euro in 2026. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-harmonised measure that makes prices comparable across Europe — stands at 4.4% as of July 2026. That is 2.4 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 1.4 points above the eurozone average of 3.0%.
The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 4.0%, energy at 12.4%, food at 2.0% and services at 6.9%. The strongest pressure is in energy (12.4%), while food is the softest (2.0%).
Month on month the headline eased from 5.2% to 4.4%, a step down from the month before.
As a more recent euro adopter still converging toward western-European income levels, Bulgaria 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.
Bulgaria ranks number 4 of 30 European economies by annual inflation, from highest to lowest, between Lithuania and Cyprus.
Bulgaria's harmonised inflation is 4.4% as of July 2026 — abovethe European Central Bank's 2% target by 2.4 percentage points.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Bulgaria's current inflation rate?
- Bulgaria's annual inflation rate, measured by the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP), is 4.4% as of July 2026.
- Is Bulgaria's inflation above or below the ECB's 2% target?
- At 4.4%, it is 2.4 percentage points above the European Central Bank's 2% target.
- How does Bulgaria's inflation compare with the rest of Europe?
- Bulgaria ranks number 4 of 30 European economies by inflation, 1.4 points above the eurozone average of 3.0%.
- Did Bulgaria's inflation rise or fall last month?
- Month on month, the headline rate eased from 5.2% to 4.4% in July 2026.