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Euro area's inflation rate jumps 10.6% in Oct 2022

19 Nov '22
1 min read
Pic: Shutterstock/ Labrynthe
Pic: Shutterstock/ Labrynthe

The euro area annual inflation rate was 10.6 per cent in October 2022, up from 9.9 per cent in September 2022. A year earlier, the rate was 4.1 per cent. European Union (EU) annual inflation was 11.5 per cent in October 2022, up from 10.9 per cent in September 2022. The rate was 4.4 per cent in October 2021, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU.

The lowest annual rates were registered in France (7.1 per cent), Spain (7.3 per cent) and Malta (7.4 per cent). The highest annual rates were recorded in Estonia (22.5 per cent), Lithuania (22.1 per cent), and Hungary (21.9 per cent). Compared with September, annual inflation fell in 11 member states, remained stable in three, and rose in 13.

In October, the highest contribution to the annual euro area inflation rate came from energy (+4.44 percentage points, pp), followed by food, alcohol, and tobacco (+2.74 pp), services (+1.82 pp) and non-energy industrial goods (+1.62 pp).

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