Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Latvia, September 2026, across 94 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+3.0%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

−3.1%

over a year

Energy

+17.2%

over a year

Services

+4.3%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+1.1%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Latvia
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+35.4%	4.1%
Jewellery and watches	+17.9%	0.2%
Gas	+16.8%	0.9%
Solid fuels	+14.9%	1.1%
Books	+13.1%	0.2%
Tobacco	+11.7%	2.6%
Newspapers and periodicals	+10.2%	0.3%
Other services	+9.8%	0.3%
Explicit charges by deposit-taking corporations	+9.2%	0.3%
Other energy for heating and cooling	+9.1%	4.1%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Latvia
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Oils and fats	−21.0%	1.0%
Fruits and nuts	−11.2%	1.4%
Fruit and vegetable juices	−9.9%	0.4%
Early childhood and primary education	−8.0%	0.3%
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−7.6%	0.2%
Coffee and coffee substitutes	−7.3%	1.2%
Milk, other dairy products and eggs	−7.2%	3.5%
Wine	−6.2%	0.8%
Live animals, and meat and other parts of slaughtered land animals	−5.3%	4.5%
Sugar, confectionery and desserts	−4.5%	2.0%

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.