Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Belgium, September 2026, across 93 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+4.5%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+0.4%

over a year

Energy

+30.6%

over a year

Services

+3.3%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+1.5%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Belgium
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Liquid fuels	+88.2%	0.7%
Gas	+34.4%	1.8%
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+33.9%	2.4%
Medicines	+16.8%	1.4%
Refuse collection	+16.2%	0.3%
Electricity	+13.1%	3.1%
Package holidays	+12.6%	1.7%
Other information and communication services	+12.1%	0.5%
Jewellery and watches	+11.4%	0.3%
Accommodation services	+11.0%	0.8%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Belgium
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−7.2%	0.4%
Mobile communication services	−5.7%	0.3%
Stationery and drawing materials	−5.3%	0.2%
Mobile telephone equipment	−4.9%	0.2%
Passenger transport by air	−3.9%	0.6%
Non-durable household goods	−3.3%	0.8%
Small household appliances	−3.0%	0.1%
Major electric and other household appliances	−2.8%	0.9%
Pets and pet products	−2.7%	0.8%
Wine	−2.4%	1.0%

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.