Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Italy, September 2026, across 96 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+4.2%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+1.9%

over a year

Energy

+22.6%

over a year

Services

+2.5%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+0.6%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Italy
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+26.7%	4.7%
Electricity	+20.4%	2.8%
Gas	+19.4%	3.1%
Jewellery and watches	+15.1%	0.7%
Hire and repair of sporting, camping and open-air recreational equipment	+14.2%	0.2%
Information processing equipment	+10.6%	0.4%
Solid fuels	+9.7%	0.4%
Passenger transport by sea and inland waterway	+8.5%	0.1%
Vegetables, tubers, plantains, cooking bananas and pulses	+7.7%	2.4%
Postal and courier services	+7.2%	0.1%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Italy
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Oils and fats	−6.9%	0.7%
Passenger transport by air	−6.1%	0.9%
Mobile telephone equipment	−4.7%	0.5%
Mobile communication services	−3.0%	0.3%
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−2.8%	0.3%
Small household appliances	−2.5%	0.2%
Wine	−2.3%	0.5%
Sporting, camping and open-air recreation equipment	−2.2%	0.2%
Shoes and other footwear	−1.5%	1.0%
Major electric and other household appliances	−1.5%	0.6%

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.