Euro area annual inflation was -0.1% in June 20092, down from 0.0% in May. A year earlier the rate was 4.0%. Monthly inflation was 0.2% in June 2009.
EU annual inflation was 0.6% in June 2009, down from 0.8% in May. A year earlier the rate was 4.3%. Monthly inflation was 0.2% in June 2009.
Inflation in the EU Member States
In June 2009, the lowest annual rates were observed in Ireland (-2.2%), Portugal (-1.6%), Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg (-1.0% each), and the highest in Romania (5.9%), Poland (4.2%) and Lithuania (3.9%). Compared with May 2009, annual inflation fell in twenty-one Member States, remained stable in four and rose in one. Malta stood at 2.8%.
The lowest 12-month averages up to June 2009 were registered in Portugal (0.8%), Ireland (1.0%) and Germany (1.5%), and the highest in Latvia (10.0%), Lithuania (8.6%) and Bulgaria (7.3%). Malta stood at 4.3%.
Euro area
The main components with the highest annual rates in June 2009 were alcohol & tobacco (4.4%), miscellaneous goods & services (2.1%) and hotels & restaurants (1.9%), while the lowest annual rates were observed for transport (-4.8%), communications (-1.0%) and housing (-0.5%). Concerning the detailed sub-indices, restaurants & cafés (+0.17 percentage points), tobacco (+0.13), rents and electricity (+0.12 each) had the largest upward impacts on the headline rate, while fuels for transport (-0.99) and heating oil (-0.45) had the biggest downward impacts.
The main components with the highest monthly rates were transport (1.4%), alcohol & tobacco (1.3%) and hotels & restaurants (0.3%), while the lowest were clothing (-1.1%), food and communications (both -0.3%). In particular, fuels for transport (+0.22 percentage points), tobacco, heating oil and fruit (+0.04 each) had the largest upward impacts, while garments (-0.07) and vegetables (-0.05) had the biggest downward impacts.
These figures come from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.