Romania CPI inflation (year-on-year)
Romania CPI inflation (year-on-year) is 8.16 percent, in force since 1 Jul 2026. It was 10.42 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 21 Aug 2026.
Rata anuală a inflaţiei measured by the Indicele preţurilor de consum (IPC), the national consumer price index published monthly by the Institutul Naţional de Statistică (INS), latest reference month.
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| Current value | 8.16 percent (YoY) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-01 |
| Official source | Institutul Naţional de Statistică — comunicat de presă nr. 202 / 12 august 2026, 'Inflaţia şi evoluţia preţurilor de consum: iulie 2026'; Tabelul 1, TOTAL iulie 2026 faţă de iulie 2025 = 108,16 (rata anuală 8,2%) |
| Last verified | 2026-08-21 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Reference month June 2026, released 13 July 2026. Monthly index 100.06% (June vs May, i.e. +0.06% m/m); cumulative since December 2025 +3.8%; 12-month moving average (Jul 2025–Jun 2026 vs Jul 2024–Jun 2025) 9.8%. By group, y/y: food +5.75%, non-food +12.29%, services +13.67%. HICP (IAPC, the EU-comparable measure) is materially LOWER: 99.94% m/m and 9.2% y/y, 12-month average 8.6% — quote the IPC figure (10.42%) for domestic use and the IAPC figure for EU comparisons; they are not interchangeable. Inflation is elevated because of one-off fiscal and administered-price shocks, not demand: the VAT increase to 21% and the excise increases of 1 August 2025, the removal of the electricity price cap, and higher state-housing rents. The BNR's 8 July 2026 communiqué expects a substantial fall in Q3 2026 as those base effects drop out, and has revised its end-2026 inflation forecast up to 5.5% from 3.9%. Next INS consumer-price release: 12 August 2026 (July 2026 data); Buletinul Statistic de Preţuri nr. 06/2026 on 21 August 2026. ACCESS NOTE: insse.ro sits behind an F5 WAF plus a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge — a plain fetch returns 'WAF Forbidden' or a challenge page, so the PDFs are only retrievable with a challenge cookie obtained from a real browser session. Press-release filenames follow ipcMMr26.pdf but are NOT reliable: the May 2026 release is at ipc05r26_0.pdf, not ipc05r26.pdf. UPDATE (roll applied 2026-08-21): Reference month July 2026, released 12 August 2026 (comunicat nr. 202). Monthly index 100,58% (July vs June); cumulative since December 2025 +4,4% (index 104,37); IPC 12-month moving average 9,8%. By group y/y: food +5,03%, non-food +7,93%, services +13,67%. IAPC: 100,42% m/m, annual 8,2%, 12-month average 8,8% — this month the IPC and IAPC annual rates coincide at one decimal (June was 10,4 vs 9,2), consistent with the BNR-predicted Q3 base-effect drop-out. Footnotes: gambling included in the IPC basket from January 2026; OUG 12/2026 provisions reflected from April 2026. Next INS consumer-price release: 11 September 2026 (August 2026 data); Buletinul Statistic de Preţuri nr. 07/2026 on 21 September 2026. Retrieval: the regular filename ipc07r26.pdf was correct this time (no _0 suffix), but the F5 WAF + JS proof-of-work challenge blocked ALL non-browser vantages (box curl: TLS-chain fail then 503 challenge with -k; WebFetch: 503; desktop curl: 503) and TEMPO-Online matrix IPC102E still ended at June 2026 on 21 August — only a real-browser (claude-in-chrome) session retrieves the PDF.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 10.42 | Institutul Naţional de Statistică — comunicat de presă nr… |
| 2026-05-01 | 10.85 | INS — comunicat de presă 'Inflaţia şi evoluţia preţurilor… |
| 2026-04-01 | 10.71 | INS — comunicat de presă nr. 115 / 13 mai 2026, 'Inflaţia… |
| 2026-03-01 | 9.87 | INS — comunicat de presă nr. 90 / 14 aprilie 2026… |
| 2026-02-01 | 9.31 | INS — comunicat de presă nr. 62 / 13 martie 2026, 'Inflaţia… |
| 2026-01-01 | 9.62 | INS — comunicat de presă nr. 38 / 16 februarie 2026… |
Get it programmatically
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