Balgarianovinite.com Annual inflation in Bulgaria, measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), slowed to 4.4% in July, according to revised Eurostat data published on its website on Wednesday. Eurostat has revised up its preliminary estimate, published at the end of July, of a 4.1% annual increase in prices in Bulgaria last month.
The pace of price increases slowed from 5.2% in June and 6.3% in May, when Bulgaria recorded its highest inflation rate since September 2023, according to Eurostat data. Nevertheless, Bulgaria remains in third place in the euro area for inflation, tied with Cyprus at 4.4%.
The highest annual rates were recorded in Romania (8.2%) and Lithuania (5.4%). The lowest annual rates were registered in Sweden (0.3%), Czechia (1.3%), Denmark and Hungary (both 1.6%).
On a monthly basis, Bulgaria recorded inflation of 0.6% in July, the same rate as in Czechia, France and Croatia. This was the fourth-highest increase in consumer prices in the EU. Higher increases were recorded in the Netherlands (1.6%), Denmark (1.5%), Germany (0.9%) and Cyprus (0.7%).
The euro area annual inflation rate was 2.9% in July 2026, up from 2.8% in June. A year earlier, the rate was 2.0%.
European Union annual inflation was 3.0% in July 2026, up from 2.9% in June. A year earlier, the rate was 2.4%.
Compared with June 2026, annual inflation fell in fifteen EU Member States, remained stable in three and rose in nine.
Services continued to make the largest contribution to euro area inflation in July, accounting for 1.55 percentage points; followed by energy, at 0.94 percentage points; non-energy industrial goods, at 0.23 percentage points; and food, alcohol and tobacco, also at 0.23 percentage points.
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