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September 16, 2022EU AND EURO AREA CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, AUGUST 2022 Year-over-year (August 2022 vs. August 2021)
The inflation rate moved up to 10.1% in the European Union and was up to 9.1% in the Euro Area in August 2022.
The fastest inflation was reported in Estonia (+25.2%), Latvia (+21.4%), and Lithuania (+21.1%) and the lowest inflation rates were in France (6.6%) and Malta (7.0%).
Food price inflation increased to 14.3% in the European Union and to 12.7% in the Euro Area.
Energy inflation moderately slowed to 37.5% in the European Union and 38.6% in the Euro Area.
Excluding the impacts of energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices inflation increased to 5.2% in the European Union and 4.3% in the Euro Area in August.
Source: Eurostat
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