Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Sweden, September 2026, across 91 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+1.0%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

−4.8%

over a year

Energy

+15.8%

over a year

Services

+1.6%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+0.4%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Sweden
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+19.9%	2.5%
Electricity	+16.9%	4.1%
Jewellery and watches	+14.5%	0.4%
Package holidays	+11.4%	2.2%
Water supply	+7.2%	0.3%
Sewage collection	+7.2%	0.3%
Newspapers and periodicals	+7.2%	0.4%
Other information and communication services	+6.7%	1.3%
Solid fuels	+6.3%	0.1%
Passenger transport by air	+5.1%	0.4%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Sweden
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Combined passenger transport	−25.8%	0.7%
Outpatient dental services	−21.9%	1.1%
Early childhood and primary education	−17.1%	0.3%
Insurance connected with health	−14.7%	0.2%
Coffee and coffee substitutes	−13.8%	0.5%
Oils and fats	−12.6%	0.4%
Milk, other dairy products and eggs	−12.5%	2.5%
Fruit and vegetable juices	−11.3%	0.6%
Motorized tools and equipment	−10.7%	0.2%
Cereals and cereal products	−7.3%	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.