France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Industrial goods was 120.01 points in April of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Industrial goods - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Industrial goods reached a record high of 122.28 points in March of 2024 and a record low of 84.30 points in January of 1999.

France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Furniture and furnishings was 118.82 points in May of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Furniture and furnishings - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Furniture and furnishings reached a record high of 119.86 points in March of 2024 and a record low of 82.94 points in January of 1996.

France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Garden furniture was 115.89 points in April of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Garden furniture - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Garden furniture reached a record high of 123.49 points in March of 2024 and a record low of 83.48 points in August of 1998.

As of April 2025, the inflation rate in the European Union was 2.4 percent, with prices rising fastest in Romania, which had an inflation rate of 4.9 percent. By contrast, both France and Cyprus saw low inflation rates during the same period, with France having the lowest inflation rate in the EU during this month. The rate of inflation in the EU in the October 2022 was higher than at any other time, with the peak prior to 2021 recorded in July 2008 when prices were growing by 4.4 percent year-on-year. Before the recent rises in inflation, price rises in the EU had been kept at relatively low levels, with the inflation rate remaining below three percent between January 2012 and August 2021. Rapid recovery and energy costs driving inflation The reopening of the European economy in 2021 following the sudden shock of COVID-19 in 2020 is behind many of the factors that have caused prices to rise so quickly in 2022. Global supply chains have not yet recovered from production issues, travel restrictions, and workforce problems brought about by the pandemic. Rising energy costs have only served to exacerbate supply problems, particularly with regard to the transport sector, which had the highest inflation rate of any sector in the EU in December 2021. High inflation rates mirrored in the U.S. The high inflation rates seen in Europe have been reflected in other parts of the world. In the United States, for example, the consumer price index reached a 40-year-high of seven percent in December 2021, influenced by many of the same factors driving European inflation. Nevertheless, it is hoped that once these supply chain issues ease, inflation levels will start to fall throughout the course of 2022.

France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Education was 129.08 points in May of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Education - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, France - Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP): Education reached a record high of 129.37 points in October of 2024 and a record low of 62.26 points in March of 1996.

The inflation rate in the European Union was 2.4 percent in April 2025, a significant decline from the high-point reached in October 2022 of 11.5 percent, the highest rate of inflation recorded in the provided time period. Before 2021, the inflation rate in the EU peaked at 4.4 percent in July 2008 and was lowest in January 2015, when prices were shrinking by 0.5 percent. Currently, Romania has the highest inflation rate among EU member states at 4.9 percent, while France has the lowest inflation rate, at 0.9 percent.