Consumer price index

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+7.2% inflation rate

+6.8% consumer prices, energy

+17.2% consumer prices, food

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Press releases

10 May 2023 Inflation rate at +7.2% in April 2023

The inflation rate in Germany, measured as the year-on-year change in the consumer price index (CPI), stood at +7.2% in April 2023. In March 2023, the inflation rate had been +7.4%. “The rate of inflation has therefore slowed for the second month in a row but remains at a high level”, says Ruth Brand, President of the Federal Statistical Office. She adds: “Looking at the basket of goods and services surveyed, food prices continued to be the biggest driver of inflation in April.” The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that consumer prices in April 2023 rose by 0.4% on March 2023.

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Consumer prices indices for Germany

28 April 2023 Inflation rate of +7.2% expected in April 2023

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13 April 2023 Inflation rate at +7.4% in March 2023

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30 March 2023 Inflation rate of +7.4% expected in March 2023

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10 March 2023 Inflation rate at +8.7% in February 2023

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1 March 2023 Inflation rate of +8.7% expected in February 2023

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Current news

Noticeable price changes in April 2023

Get an overview of the most noticeable price changes for selected goods and services.

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Revision in the Consumer price statistics

The consumer price index is regularly revised and adapted to a new base year. With the results for the reference month January 2023, the adaptation will take place from the previous base 2015 to the base year 2020.

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Informations on the measures of the relief packages and their impact on consumer price indices

Volatile developments in consumer prices, especially regarding energy prices (household energy and fuels), caused a noticeable financial pressure on private households in the course of 2022 and also at the beginning of 2023. Since spring 2022, the German Federal Government has therefore adopted three comprehensive relief packages to support consumers. Some measures affect consumer prices directly and have an impact on their general development.

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Tables

Consumer price indices

Database

GENESIS-Online

More data are available from the GENESIS-Online database on the themes:

Consumer price index for Germany
Harmonised index of consumer prices
Retail price index


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Statistics visualised

Price Monitor

You can use our Price Monitor to get an overview of the most striking price changes regarding the goods and services frequently purchased.

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Price Kaleidoscope

The rate of price increase does not only depend on how prices change. The weights with which the price trends of the individual goods and services are reflected in the consumer price index are also important. The Price Kaleidoscope shows you the price trend and the weights of various product groups in the consumer price index.

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Personal Inflation Calculator

You can use this calculator to show the price development while weighting the different product types according to your individual consumption pattern.

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Consumer price index (2020 = 100)

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Consumer price indices for all category of goods

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Change of consumer prices

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Basket of goods and services and weighting pattern

Publications

Consumer price index – Weighting pattern

Data on Energy Price Trends - Long-Time Series

Methods

Compilation of the HICP pattern for the year 2023 (price base December 2022)

An annual update of the weights of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) calculated for European purposes is carried out in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2016/792 and (EU) 2020/1148. The Corona pandemic prevailing in 2020, with its restrictions on public life and the resulting consequences, necessitates for the third year in a row a change in the usual approach to updating the goods weights.

Impact of the corona crisis on the CPI/HICP price collection

Despite the challenges in the current corona crisis, price statistics are working on the reliable provision of the national consumer price index (CPI) and the harmonised consumer price index (HICP) as important economic indicators.

Experimental data

In the "EXDAT – Experimental data section" we regularly publish new and innovative project results of the Federal Statistical Office. These are obtained by using new data sources and methods. Both the degree of maturity and quality of the results differ from those of official statistics, especially regarding harmonisation, coverage and methodology. Nonetheless these results of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder offer new and interesting ways of looking at various statistical topics.

Selected articles from the EXDAT series

Scanner data in price statistics and for determining regional price differences

Digital point-of-sale data of the retail sector, also referred to as scanner data, are a promising data source for price statistics. In official consumer price statistics, manual price collection performed by price collectors directly in shops or service enterprises is supplemented, or in part replaced, by new forms of price collection.

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