inflation in the euro area It climbed two-tenths in August to 9.1 percent year-on-year, A new record is being set, according to preliminary data released this Wednesday by the Eurostat community statistics office.
While August was the month with the highest annual inflation, So far this year, the increase in prices is 5.1% in January, 5.9% in February, 7.4% in March and April, 8.1% in May, 8.6% in June and July It was 8.9% in .
this Core inflationExcluding energy and fresh food due to more volatile prices, it was 4.3% last month, corresponding to a growth of three-tenths from July.
Repeated energy in the eighth month of the year as the main factor price increase, While the annual growth rate is 38.3%, it is lower than in July (39.6%) and the 44% peak seen especially in March.
Member States with the highest inflation rates
On your own behalf Price processed foodsalcohol and tobacco rose 10.5% (compared to 9.4% in May), the proportion of unprocessed food decreased slightly from 11.1% in July to 10.9% in August.
Latter, the price of non-energy industrial goods increased by five tenths, up to 5 percent, On the other hand, the increase in services prices decreased by one tenth compared to the previous month (3.8% compared to 3.7% in May).
this three Baltic states Led by Estonia (25.2%), followed by Lithuania (21.1%) and Latvia (20.8%), they were common currency partners with the highest inflation rates in June.
group of countries with youDouble-digit inflation in the Netherlands (13.6%), Slovakia (13.3%), Slovenia (11.5%), Greece (11.1%), Belgium (10.5%) and Spain (10.3%) completing, according to the harmonized CPI).
Below this threshold only Above the euro area average in Cyprus (9.6%), Portugal (9.4%) and Austria (9.2%).
Finallyseven common currency countries had below-average inflation in August. These are Italy (9%), Ireland (8.9%), Germany (8.8%), Luxembourg (8.6%), Finland (7.6%), Malta (7.1%), and France (7.1%). 6.5).