🇧🇬Bulgaria inflation rate

Bulgaria adopted the euro in 2026. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-wide measure the European Central Bank targets at 2% — stands at 6.3% as of May 2026. That is 4.3 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 3.1 points above the euro-area average of 3.2%.

The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 4.9%, energy at 17.8%, food at 4.7% and services at 9.0%. The strongest pressure is in energy (17.8%), while food is the softest (4.7%).

Month on month the headline rose from 6.0% to 6.3%, extending the climb.

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.