Italy Consumer price inflation (NIC, year-on-year)
Italy Consumer price inflation (NIC, year-on-year) is 2.8 percent, in force since 1 Jul 2026. It was 3 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 11 Sep 2026.
ISTAT indice nazionale dei prezzi al consumo per l'intera collettività (NIC), including tobacco — headline year-on-year rate.
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| Current value | 2.8 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-01 |
| In force until | 2026-07-31 |
| Official source | ISTAT, 'Prezzi al consumo (dati provvisori) – luglio 2026' / 'Consumer prices (provisional data) – July 2026' (31 July 2026): NIC +0.2% month-on-month, +2.8% year-on-year |
| Last verified | 2026-09-11 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
July 2026 PROVISIONAL: NIC +2.8% year-on-year, +0.2% month-on-month, decelerating from +3.0% in June. The definitive July figure is due 12 August 2026 — ISTAT publishes a provisional (provvisorio) flash estimate at end-month and a definitive figure around the 15th-16th of the following month, and the two have matched in recent months (June's definitive confirmed its flash) — re-verify against the definitive release on or after 12 August 2026. This is the NIC (national index for the whole resident population, gross of tobacco) — the domestic legal-reference index used for rent and alimony indexation and for statutory revaluations. IT IS NOT THE SAME as the two other ISTAT consumer indices: (a) IPCA/HICP, the EU-harmonised index used for euro-area comparison and for the CCNL renewal mechanism, which reads differently every month because of differing treatment of promotional prices, health-care co-payments and weights; and (b) FOI, the index for households of blue- and white-collar workers, used for TFR severance revaluation. Serving the wrong one is a common error — this series is NIC. The run-up from +1.5% in February to the 3% range is almost entirely energy; core excluding energy and unprocessed food has been in the 1.6-1.7% range. Access quirk: ISTAT press releases exist in parallel Italian and English URL trees, and the provisional release sits at a DIFFERENT slug ('/comunicato-stampa/prezzi-al-consumo-dati-provvisori-luglio-2026/') from the definitive one — do not confuse them. Detailed tables are PDF-only and image-heavy so text extraction frequently fails; use the HTML comunicato-stampa page.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 3 | ISTAT, Comunicato stampa 'Prezzi al consumo — Giugno 2026'… |
| 2026-05-01 | 3.2 | — |
| 2026-04-01 | 2.7 | — |
| 2026-03-01 | 1.7 | — |
| 2026-02-01 | 1.5 | — |
Get it programmatically
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