Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Austria, September 2026, across 100 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+3.6%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+0.7%

over a year

Energy

+15.2%

over a year

Services

+4.4%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+0.5%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Austria
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Liquid fuels	+63.1%	0.3%
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+34.2%	2.8%
Information processing equipment	+14.6%	0.5%
Solid fuels	+12.8%	0.4%
Passenger transport by air	+12.0%	0.9%
Gas	+11.8%	1.1%
Combined passenger transport	+11.6%	1.2%
Passenger transport by railway	+9.3%	0.4%
Other non-alcoholic beverages	+8.7%	0.2%
Newspapers and periodicals	+8.2%	0.4%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Austria
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Mobile communication services	−12.3%	0.8%
Oils and fats	−10.5%	0.3%
Electricity	−9.3%	2.3%
Sporting, camping and open-air recreation equipment	−7.5%	0.4%
Fruit and vegetable juices	−6.3%	0.2%
Mobile telephone equipment	−5.6%	0.5%
Motorized tools and equipment	−5.1%	0.3%
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−4.5%	0.4%
Milk, other dairy products and eggs	−2.6%	1.7%
Glassware, tableware and household utensils	−2.4%	0.5%

Source: Eurostat HICP, annual rate of change by ECOICOP class (prc_hicp_minr) and item weights for 2026 (prc_hicp_iw). Weight = share of the average household's spending. Categories under 0.1% of spending are left out so that tiny items with volatile prices do not crowd the lists. Red: prices up; blue: prices down.