Bulgaria inflation rate (CPI)
Bulgarian national consumer price index (ИПЦ) headline inflation, year-on-year change for the latest published month, produced by the Национален статистически институт (НСИ / National Statistical Institute).
| Current value | 5.4 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| In force until | 2026-06-30 |
| Official source | Национален статистически институт (НСИ), прессъобщение 'Инфлация и индекси на потребителските цени - юни 2026 година', публикувано 15 юли 2026 г.: месечна инфлация -0.9%, годишна инфлация 5.4% |
| Last verified | 2026-07-24 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Headline national ИПЦ, +5.4% year-on-year in June 2026, with prices FALLING 0.9% month-on-month against May 2026. WHICH INDEX: the value served is the NATIONAL Индекс на потребителските цени (ИПЦ), the domestically relevant index. НСИ publishes a Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (ХИПЦ / HICP) alongside it, which for June 2026 read +5.2% y/y and -0.5% m/m; the two diverge materially and persistently in Bulgaria - the gap was 1.3 percentage points in March 2026 (ИПЦ +4.1% vs ХИПЦ +2.8%) - because of differences in coverage and weighting, so they are NOT interchangeable. The ХИПЦ is the series the ECB uses for the euro-area aggregate and is the one relevant to Bulgaria's Maastricht/convergence assessment. MONTHLY DRIVERS (June 2026): the fall was led by transport -3.3% (fuels) and food and non-alcoholic beverages -1.9%, against increases in restaurant and hotel services +1.5% and education +0.5%. CONTEXT THAT MATTERS FOR READING THIS SERIES: Bulgarian inflation accelerated sharply in the first half of 2026, from +4.1% in March to +6.8% in April and +6.9% in May, before easing to +5.4% in June. That surge coincides with the euro changeover on 1 January 2026 and the parallel energy shock, and price-rounding on conversion was politically contentious - mandatory dual pricing in lev and euro ran from 8 August 2025 to 8 August 2026 precisely to constrain it. Bulgaria's rate is materially above the euro-area average and above the German reading of +2.3% for the same month. RELEASE CADENCE: НСИ publishes an express preliminary estimate (експресна предварителна оценка) shortly after month end and the full release around the 14th-15th of the following month; only the full release is served here. Next release: July 2026 data, expected mid-August 2026. Access: nsi.bg press-release pages load as clean static HTML and the Bulgarian-language slugs are stable.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-01 | 4.1 | НСИ, прессъобщение 'Инфлация и индекси на потребителските це |
| 2026-04-01 | 6.8 | НСИ, прессъобщение 'Инфлация и индекси на потребителските це |
| 2026-05-01 | 6.9 | НСИ, прессъобщение 'Инфлация и индекси на потребителските це |
Get it programmatically
curl https://euroref.dev/v1/bg/cpi
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