Inflation Rate in Netherlands increased to 3.30 percent in September from 2.80 percent in August of 2025. This dataset provides - Netherlands Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Harmonised Inflation Rate YoY in Netherlands increased to 3 percent in September from 2.40 percent in August of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Netherlands Harmonised Inflation Rate YoY.

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The statistic shows the inflation rate in the Netherlands from 1987 to 2024, with projections up until 2030. The inflation rate is calculated using the price increase of a defined product basket. This product basket contains products and services, on which the average consumer spends money throughout the year. They include expenses for groceries, clothes, rent, power, telecommunications, recreational activities and raw materials (e.g. gas, oil), as well as federal fees and taxes. In 2024, the average inflation rate in the Netherlands was about 3.22 percent compared to the previous year. Economy of the Netherlands The Netherlands has an open economy, which implies that the country is highly dependent on foreign activities, such as imports and exports. The country’s economic policies and regulations have allowed for the country to highly benefit from strong international relations, however have increased the chances of economic struggles that correspond with the economic situations in other countries as well. The Netherlands is one of the main countries for foreign direct investments in Europe due to its strategic location, superior technological infrastructure as well as international business environment, a reputation that has all but grown more formidable over the years. Additionally, the country’s tourism industry makes up a rather large part of its GDP. Despite feeling the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 as well as the Eurozone crisis, many aspects of the Dutch economy are highly prosperous, most notably with its low inflation rates. Unemployment within the country, in spite of a slight increase over the past several years, has remained relatively low in comparison many other European countries that were equally as affected by recession.

Key information about Netherlands Consumer Price Index CPI growth

• Netherlands Consumer Price Index (CPI) growth was measured at 3.8 % YoY in Feb 2025, compared with a rate of 3.3 % in the previous month.
• Netherlands Consumer Price Index growth data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1958 to Feb 2025, with an averaged number of 2.6 % YoY.
• The data reached an all-time high of 14.5 % YoY in Sep 2022 and a record low of -2.5 % YoY in Aug 1958.

CEIC calculates Consumer Price Index Growth from monthly Consumer Price Index. Statistics Netherlands provides Consumer Price Index with base 2015=100. Consumer Price Index Growth prior to January 1997 is sourced from the International Monetary Fund. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Consumer Price Index CPI in Netherlands decreased to 135.92 points in September from 135.99 points in August of 2025. This dataset provides - Netherlands Consumer Price Index (CPI) - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Core consumer prices in Netherlands increased 3.10 percent in September of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - Netherlands Core Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about Netherlands Core CPI Change

• Netherlands Core CPI Change was reported at 3.511 % in Jan 2025.
• This records a decrease from the previous number of 4.280 % for Dec 2024.
• Netherlands Core CPI Change data is updated monthly, averaging 1.660 % from Jan 1997 to Jan 2025, with 337 observations.
• The data reached an all-time high of 9.192 % in May 2023 and a record low of 0.030 % in Mar 2017.
• Netherlands Core CPI Change data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by CEIC Data.
• The data is categorized under World Trend Plus’s Global Economic Monitor – Table: Core CPI: Y-o-Y Growth: Monthly.

CEIC calculates Core Consumer Price Index Growth from monthly Harmonized Core Consumer Price Index. Eurostat provides Harmonized Core Consumer Price Index with base 2015=100. Core Consumer Price Index excludes Unprocessed Food and Energy.

Cost of food in Netherlands increased 4.30 percent in September of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - Netherlands Food Inflation - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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.

This table presents the Consumer price index (CPI) with reference year 1900 = 100. This index series is an estimation and has been constructed by multiplying the year-on-year mutations of several index series from different reference periods with the overlapping index from the previous reference period. The index shows the price change of the goods and services purchased by an average Dutch household in one year. Annual rate of change is measured as the year on-year change of the CPI, expressed as a percentage. The annual rate of change in this series may differ from the officially published annual rate of change as a result of rounding differences.

Data available from: 1900

Status of the figures: The yearly figures are provisional when first published. Definitive figures are provided in the second version. Disparities between provisional and definitive figures must be attributed to new or updated source material that has become available.

Changes compared with previous version: Data on the most recent period have been added and/or adjustments have been implemented.

When will new figures be published? New figures are available at the beginning of the year.

Key information about House Prices Growth

• Netherlands house prices grew 11.5% YoY in Jan 2025, following an increase of 10.9% YoY in the previous month.
• YoY growth data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1996 to Jan 2025, with an average growth rate of 4.7%.
• House price data reached an all-time high of 20.9% in Jan 2022 and a record low of -9.6% in Jan 2013.

CEIC calculates House Prices Growth from monthly House Price Index. 2.Statistics Netherlands provides House Price Index with base 2020=100.

House Price Index YoY in Netherlands decreased to 9.50 percent in the second quarter of 2025 from 10.70 percent in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Netherlands House Price Index YoY.

This table contains figures on the average price development of the selling prices, the import prices and the domestic consumption of industrial products with a base year of 2015=100. This data is available for both domestic and foreign sales. The products are classified based on the goods classification PRODCOM (PRODuction COMmunautaire).

Data available from January 2012 up to and including December 2023.

Status of the figures: The data for August 2023 up to and including December 2023 and the 2023 annual rate are provisional. Since this table has been stopped, the data is no longer made definitive.

Changes as of March 6th 2024 None, this table is stopped.

When will new figures be published? The results in this series are based on 2015=100. Due to the base shift this table is stopped. Figures based on 2021=100 are published in table Producer Price Index (PPI), output and importprices by product, 2021=100. Further information, see Base Year Revision Industrial Producer Price Index, 2021=100 in paragraph 3.

In the last 16 years, the price of a pack of cigarettes in the Netherlands increased by more than *** percent, from just **** euros in 2005 to **** in 2022. In the period until 2021, the annual inflation rate was never above **** percent, peaking in 2001 at *** percent. This suggests that prices of cigarettes grew much faster than the CPI.

International comparison: the price of cigarettes in the Benelux region  

 Of all the Benelux countries, the Dutch clearly paid the most for their cigarettes. A pack of ** cigarettes in the Netherlands sold for **** euros on average, whereas in Belgium for the same pack you would pay **** euros in 2021. Cigarettes were cheapest in Luxembourg though: ** cigarettes on average cost just **** euros – the same price smokers in the Netherlands paid all the way back in 2005.

 Expenditure on cigarettes in the Netherlands   

Consumer expenditure on tobacco products reached *** billion euros in 2020. Roughly *** billion of this came from the sales of cigarettes. On average, Dutch consumers spent just over *** euros per capita on cigarettes.

Wages in Netherlands increased 4.70 percent in September of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - Netherlands Hourly Wage Growth YoY- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

At **** U.S. dollars, Switzerland has the most expensive Big Macs in the world, according to the January 2025 Big Mac index. Concurrently, the cost of a Big Mac was **** dollars in the U.S., and **** U.S. dollars in the Euro area. What is the Big Mac index? The Big Mac index, published by The Economist, is a novel way of measuring whether the market exchange rates for different countries’ currencies are overvalued or undervalued. It does this by measuring each currency against a common standard – the Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald’s restaurants all over the world. Twice a year the Economist converts the average national price of a Big Mac into U.S. dollars using the exchange rate at that point in time. As a Big Mac is a completely standardized product across the world, the argument goes that it should have the same relative cost in every country. Differences in the cost of a Big Mac expressed as U.S. dollars therefore reflect differences in the purchasing power of each currency. Is the Big Mac index a good measure of purchasing power parity? Purchasing power parity (PPP) is the idea that items should cost the same in different countries, based on the exchange rate at that time. This relationship does not hold in practice. Factors like tax rates, wage regulations, whether components need to be imported, and the level of market competition all contribute to price variations between countries. The Big Mac index does measure this basic point – that one U.S. dollar can buy more in some countries than others. There are more accurate ways to measure differences in PPP though, which convert a larger range of products into their dollar price. Adjusting for PPP can have a massive effect on how we understand a country’s economy. The country with the largest GDP adjusted for PPP is China, but when looking at the unadjusted GDP of different countries, the U.S. has the largest economy.

Portugal, Canada, and the United States were the countries with the highest house price to income ratio in 2024. In all three countries, the index exceeded 130 index points, while the average for all OECD countries stood at 116.2 index points. The index measures the development of housing affordability and is calculated by dividing nominal house price by nominal disposable income per head, with 2015 set as a base year when the index amounted to 100. An index value of 120, for example, would mean that house price growth has outpaced income growth by 20 percent since 2015. How have house prices worldwide changed since the COVID-19 pandemic? House prices started to rise gradually after the global financial crisis (2007–2008), but this trend accelerated with the pandemic. The countries with advanced economies, which usually have mature housing markets, experienced stronger growth than countries with emerging economies. Real house price growth (accounting for inflation) peaked in 2022 and has since lost some of the gain. Although, many countries experienced a decline in house prices, the global house price index shows that property prices in 2023 were still substantially higher than before COVID-19. Renting vs. buying In the past, house prices have grown faster than rents. However, the home affordability has been declining notably, with a direct impact on rental prices. As people struggle to buy a property of their own, they often turn to rental accommodation. This has resulted in a growing demand for rental apartments and soaring rental prices.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The transportation sub-index of the CPI basket in Netherlands decreased to 134.32 points in September of 2025 from 137 points in August of 2025. This dataset provides - Netherlands Cpi Transportation- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.