🇦🇹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.
Harmonised inflation (HICP) · annual rate
3.7%
vs 2% target
+1.7pp
Austria's harmonised inflation is 3.7% as of May 2026 — abovethe European Central Bank's 2% target by 1.7 percentage points.
Core (excl. energy & food)
3.4%
▲ 0.5pp vs prev
Energy
9.6%
▼ 1.0pp vs prev
Food
2.1%
▼ 0.4pp vs prev
Services
4.7%
▲ 0.4pp vs prev
Source: Eurostat (HICP) · data through May 2026 · modifications: none
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