European prices
Consumer prices, rents, house prices and where groceries cost more — the price side of the euro-area economy, from official Eurostat data. Inflation rates say how fast prices are changing; price levels say where they are high.
The harmonised consumer-price rate the ECB targets at 2%.
How fast food prices are changing — the food component of the HICP.
How fast actual rents are changing — a consumer-price rate, not a rent in euros.
Transaction prices of homes, quarterly, from Eurostat's House Price Index.
Where groceries cost more: the price level of food and non-alcoholic beverages, EU average = 100.
Household electricity and gas prices
What a kilowatt-hour of electricity and of natural gas costs a household in each European country, all taxes and levies included, in euros, from Eurostat. Half-yearly figures.
The price per kWh paid by a household that uses 2,500 to 5,000 kWh of electricity a year, all taxes and levies included.
The price per kWh paid by a household that uses 20 to 200 GJ of natural gas a year, all taxes and levies included.
Food inflation here is the HICP aggregate "food including alcohol and tobacco" — the component the ECB reports alongside energy, non-energy industrial goods and services. It covers more than the grocery basket.
House prices are not part of consumer-price inflation. The House Price Index measures the transaction prices of dwellings bought by households; the HICP measures the prices of goods and services consumed. Owner-occupied housing is not in headline HICP.
This is a price level, not an inflation rate: it compares what the same basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages costs in each country in one year, with the EU average set at 100. A higher number means groceries cost more than the EU average.
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