Overview
- Service prices rose 3.5% year over year, with combined passenger transport, social care, healthcare, car repairs and package holidays higher, and net cold rents up 2.0%.
- Energy products were 0.9% cheaper than a year earlier, with household energy down 1.7% as heating oil fell and electricity and district heating edged lower, while natural gas and solid fuels rose and motor fuel was up 0.4%.
- Food inflation slowed to 1.3% year over year, with sizable declines in edible oils and butter and lower vegetable prices offset by sharp increases for sweets—especially chocolate—and higher meat and fruit prices.
- Consumer prices rose 0.3% from September, lifted partly by a 19.4% surge in airline tickets, while overall food was flat and energy ticked up 0.2% on the month.
- Destatis reported corrections to January–September subcategory data for certain legal and care service fees without any change to the overall VPI or HVPI readings.