Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in France, September 2026, across 104 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+3.4%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+1.6%

over a year

Energy

+21.1%

over a year

Services

+2.6%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+0.1%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, France
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Liquid fuels	+64.5%	0.2%
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+34.3%	3.9%
Gas	+18.9%	1.4%
Mobile communication services	+16.8%	0.7%
Jewellery and watches	+11.9%	0.8%
Passenger transport by air	+10.0%	1.3%
Services provided by museums, libraries and cultural sites	+9.3%	0.1%
Other energy for heating and cooling	+9.2%	0.2%
Vegetables, tubers, plantains, cooking bananas and pulses	+9.0%	1.4%
Insurance connected with transport	+7.4%	0.9%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, France
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−5.0%	0.3%
Mobile telephone equipment	−4.0%	0.4%
Bundled telecommunication services	−3.8%	0.6%
Small household appliances	−3.6%	0.2%
Bicycles	−3.6%	0.2%
Shoes and other footwear	−3.1%	0.6%
Canteens, cafeterias and refectories	−3.0%	1.0%
Major electric and other household appliances	−2.4%	0.7%
Medicines	−2.4%	0.8%
Services provided by cinemas, theatres and concert venues	−2.0%	0.8%

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.