Monthly Statistical Bulletin, May 2022

MAY 2022 26 As regards the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), the following rates of change were recorded in April 2022: • Year-on-year: 7.4%, which is the new highest value since the beginning of the series in 1996 (+1.9 p.p. than in the previous month and -0.1 p.p. than the value estimated by Eurostat for the Euro Area (EA) (+1.9 p.p. in March)); Excluding unprocessed food and energy, the HICP in Portugal reached a year-on-year rate of change of 5.3% (4.1% in March), higher than the corresponding rate for the EA (estimated at 3.9%), keeping the upward profile seen in recent months; • Month-on-month: 2.4% (2.6% in the previous month and 0.5% in April 2021); • Average of the last 12 months: 2.6% (2.0% in the previous month). More information is available at: Consumer price index – April 2022 11 May 2022 4.9% 5.5% 5.6% 6.6% 7.2% 7.3% 7.4% 7.4% 7.5% 7.8% 8.3% 8.6% 9.0% 9.3% 9.4% 10.9% 11.2% 13.2% 16.6% 19.0% 0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0% 12.0% 14.0% 16.0% 18.0% 20.0% Malta France Finland Italy Austria Ireland Portugal Slovenia Euro Area Germany Spain Cyprus Luxembourg Belgium Greece Slovakia Netherlands latvia Lithuania Estonia Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (year-on-year rate of change in the Eurozone Countries, April 2022)

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