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Cost of Living

From the supermarket till to the repair-shop invoice: how fast the prices that matter are rising across the euro-area consumer basket, producer inputs, wages, imports and repair, and what that means for the cost of settling an insurance claim.

6 episodes

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Headline numbers · latest reading

HICP · YoY-0.4pp

+2.0%

Core HICP-0.4pp

+2.3%

Producer prices+3.8pp

+4.7%

Labour cost-0.5pp

+3.2%

Repair composite+24.7pp

+2.7%

New episode: Cost of Living

15 Jun 2026

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Episodes

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EP1 - Cost of Living

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EP2 - Cost of Doing Business

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EP6 - Cost of Claims

About this data

The euro-area Cost of Living series is built from official European statistics published by Eurostat, harmonised across member states and updated as each release lands.

Eurostat

Produces The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP and core HICP), domestic producer prices, the Labour Cost Index, and the euro-area import price index · Monthly for consumer, producer and import prices; quarterly for the Labour Cost Index

Eurostat harmonises the figures produced by national statistical institutes across the euro area onto a common basis, so the series are comparable across countries and aggregate cleanly to the euro-area level.

Euro-area HICP is published to December 2025 in this environment, a ceiling that sits at both Eurostat and the ECB; the producer- and import-price episodes run more current. The repair composite in Episode 5 is an Encyclix proxy (producer prices blended with HICP energy and services), as Eurostat has no single euro-area construction or repair index.

Key Publications

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Official releases and analysis will plug in here: the monthly Eurostat HICP and producer-price releases, the quarterly Labour Cost Index, and related euro-area analysis.

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