Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Germany, September 2026, across 106 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+3.3%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+1.1%

over a year

Energy

+13.4%

over a year

Services

+2.8%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+2.1%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Germany
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Liquid fuels	+41.1%	0.3%
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+36.8%	3.5%
Medicines	+21.3%	1.1%
Mobile telephone equipment	+9.9%	0.2%
Information processing equipment	+9.6%	0.6%
Vegetables, tubers, plantains, cooking bananas and pulses	+9.0%	1.5%
Jewellery and watches	+8.9%	0.4%
Insurance connected with health	+8.7%	0.5%
Inpatient long-term care services	+7.0%	1.6%
Passenger transport by air	+7.0%	0.8%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Germany
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Oils and fats	−14.5%	0.3%
Other information and communication services	−6.8%	0.3%
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−6.6%	0.5%
Electricity	−5.5%	3.1%
Insurance connected with dwellings	−5.5%	0.2%
Fruit and vegetable juices	−5.1%	0.3%
Coffee and coffee substitutes	−4.2%	0.3%
Gas	−3.4%	1.6%
Major electric and other household appliances	−3.2%	0.6%
Milk, other dairy products and eggs	−2.9%	1.9%

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.