Be the first to comment!Annual inflation down to -0.1% in euro area & EU, Malta highest at 1.6%
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Euro area annual inflation was -0.1% in September 2015, down from 0.1% in August, whilst in September 2014 the rate was 0.3%.
European Union annual inflation was -0.1% in September 2015, down from 0.0% in August, whereas in September 2014 the rate was 0.4%.
The highest annual rates were recorded in Malta (1.6%), Belgium, Portugal and Sweden (all 0.9%). Compared with August 2015, annual inflation fell in eighteen Member States, remained stable in four and rose in six.
Negative annual rates were observed in seventeen Member States. The lowest annual rates were registered in Cyprus (-1.9%), Romania (-1.5%) and Spain (-1.1%).
The largest upward impacts to euro area annual inflation came from restaurants & cafés (+0.12 percentage points), vegetables (+0.11 pp) and tobacco (+0.08 pp), while fuels for transport (-0.71 pp), heating oil (-0.25 pp) and milk, cheese & eggs (-0.06 pp) had the biggest downward impacts.
These figures come from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
