This statistic shows the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) for education in Belgium from January 2019 to December 2024. In December 2024 the harmonized consumer price index for education was 141.53.

According to projections by staff of the Eurosystem - the group of central banks of countries which use the Euro as their currency - the annual inflation rate of the Eurozone is set to decline sharply, halving from 5.4 percent in 2023 to 2.1 percent in 2025, with more gradual declines in 2026 and 2027. This decline in the rate of increase of the price level in the Eurozone is being driven by comparatively low inflation in energy prices, which stands in sharp contrast to the situation of the EU in 2022, when the price of energy skyrocketed due to the sanctions placed on Russia in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine. Food price inflation - which was a key driver of inflation in 2023, standing at over 10 percent - is also contributing to the drop in the inflation rate, as a sharp fall to 3.0 percent is forecast for 2025.

This statistic shows the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) for alcohol and tobacco in Belgium from January 2019 to December 2024, with 2015 as base year (2015=100). In December 2024, the harmonized consumer price index for alcohol and tobacco increased to 183.25.

This statistic displays the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) for the health sector in Belgium from January 2019 to December 2024, with 2015 as base year (2015=100). Over this period, the HICP of health services and goods in Belgium slowly increased. In December 2024, the harmonized consumer price index for the health sector in Belgium was 115.91.

This statistic displays the annual change in the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) in Luxembourg from 2019 to 2021, with a forecast for 2022 to 2024. In 2024, the HICP is expected to grow by 3.1 percent.

High Impact Chronic Pain (HICP) has an impact on the individual's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) by affecting the individual's functioning in both physical, social and mental health domains. Therefore, HRQOL is one of the most important treatment outcomes for patients with HICP. HRQOL can be measured in various ways, including through questionnaires based on the patients' own assessment of HRQOL. The Danish 10-item PROMIS Global Health questionnaire (PROMIS-10) is a questionnaire used to measure HRQOL.

This pre-graduate project has three aims. 1) The first aim is to gain deeper knowledge of patients with HICP’s understanding of the construct of HRQOL. 2) The second aim is to gain a deeper understanding of patients with HICP’s interpretation and un-derstanding of the PROMIS-10 questionnaire. 3) The third aim is to gain deeper knowledge about how much the different items in the PROMIS-10 questionnaire should change for the patients to find it important change of HRQOL.

The project will include 15-20 patients with HICP from Pain Center South in Odense and Pain Center Middelfart. The project will collect data through semi-structured individual interviews. The semi-structured interviews will be based on different data collection techniques: Concept Elicitation (CE) and Cognitive Debriefing (CD). CE will be used to investigate the project's first purpose. The technique is based on open questions, which aim to investigate patients' perspectives and understandings of a condition or a concept. CD will be used to examine the project's second and third objectives through the recognized Three-Step Test-Interview method. CD is a structured and focused technique with direct questions about how patients understand questions in a questionnaire to ensure content validity and accuracy of measurement. Subsequently, the interviews will be transcribed and analyzed. The project will contribute knowledge that is relevant to ensure relevant and meaningful treatment for patients with HICP as well as ensure correct assessment and monitoring of HRQOL.

In December of 2024, the inflation rate, measured here as the annual change in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), reached 0.6 percent in the food and non-acoholic beverages sector when compared to the same month in the previous year. Similarly, the annual inflation rate for the alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics sector was noticeably high, reaching 7.1 percent.

In December of 2024, the inflation rate, measured here as the annual change in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), reached 0.6 percent in the food and non-alcoholic beverage sector when compared to the same month of the previous year. This is a decrease of around 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous time period.

The harmonized index for consumer prices (HICP) for alcohol and tobacco in Portugal has shown a steady increase, reaching 124.96 points in May 2025, the highest point in the period examined. This upward trend reflects broader changes in Portugal's alcohol consumption patterns and pricing, particularly in the beer and wine sectors. The lowest value was recorded in February 2020, when the figure reached 108.31 index points. Beer consumption and revenue on the rise Beer consumption in Portugal has seen a notable uptick, with annual per capita consumption increasing from 48 liters in 2021 to 60 liters in 2023. This growth is mirrored in the excise duty revenue from beer, which jumped from 82.5 million euros in 2021 to 109 million euros in 2023. Super Bock remains the most popular beer brand, consumed by 69 percent of people, followed by Sagres at 42 percent. Wine production and consumption fluctuations While beer consumption has risen, wine consumption has experienced some fluctuations. Per capita wine consumption increased from 49 liters in the 2017/2018 harvest season to 55 liters in the 2021/2022, but saw a decrease to 52 liters in the 2023/2024 season. Portugal's wine production remains robust, with Douro, Lisboa, and Alentejo emerging as the major wine-producing regions, collectively producing over 2.7 million hectoliters in the season ending in 2025.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 124.9 points in January 2025, down 2.1 points from December 2024. The highest value for the index in the past 23 years was reached in March 2022. However, the rate of food price increases has been decreasing since.

Food prices worldwide The annual FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) by category shows that the price of vegetable oils grew by a particularly large margin. One of the factors that influenced the spike in oil prices worldwide during 2020 and 2021 were the supply-chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, after the war in Ukraine, shipping costs and grain prices also had a noticeable impact on global food prices. Global food prices are calculated to have increased by 3.68 percent, due to changes in shipping costs and grain prices. The European Union (EU) has experienced a particularly high increase in the annual consumer prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, as compared to other selected countries worldwide. Inflation in Europe

The inflation rate for food in the EU grew from 0.2 percent in May 2021 to 19.2 percent in March 2023, as compared to the same month in the previous year. In the following months, the food inflation started decreasing again, reaching 1.86 percent in April 2024. The overall inflation rate in the Euro area reached its peak in December 2022 at 9.2 percent. The rate has since fallen to 2.4 percent in December 2024. As measured by the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), inflation rates in Europe were highest in Turkey, North Macedonia, and Romania as of December 2024.