Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Romania, September 2026, across 90 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+6.5%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+3.0%

over a year

Energy

+14.4%

over a year

Services

+9.3%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+5.0%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Romania
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Actual rental payments made by tenants for main residence	+39.5%	0.6%
Insurance connected with transport	+38.8%	0.2%
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+29.4%	4.8%
Jewellery and watches	+25.2%	0.2%
Bundled telecommunication services	+16.6%	0.6%
Refuse collection	+15.8%	0.1%
Water supply	+14.7%	0.7%
Coffee and coffee substitutes	+13.8%	0.8%
Sewage collection	+13.8%	0.4%
Newspapers and periodicals	+12.5%	0.2%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Romania
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Fruits and nuts	−11.6%	2.1%
Vegetables, tubers, plantains, cooking bananas and pulses	−5.1%	3.3%
Combined passenger transport	−0.6%	0.2%
Insurance connected with dwellings	0.0%	0.1%
Passenger transport by air	+1.3%	0.3%
Electricity	+1.4%	2.8%
Medicines	+1.8%	4.9%
Musical instruments	+2.2%	0.1%
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	+2.3%	0.4%
Passenger transport by railway	+2.7%	0.3%

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.