HICP inflation — annual rate of change (monthly)
Monthly Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices, annual rate of change, all-items index, for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidates and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset prc_hicp_manr ('HICP - monthly data (annual rate of change)').
Source: Eurostat13,222 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
inflationhicppricesmacroeurope
Quality
100
Attribution
Eurostat
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation period from the Eurostat 'time' dimension. Annual observations (YYYY) are stored as January 1; monthly observations (YYYY-MM) as the first of the month; quarterly observations (YYYY-QN) as the first month of the quarter. |
| series_id | string | Series key: the Eurostat dimension codes (freq, unit, na_item/coicop/s_adj/age/sex/... and geo) joined with dots, in the dataset's dimension order — e.g. 'A.CP_MEUR.B1GQ.DE'. |
| series_label | string | Human-readable series description: the Eurostat-published dimension labels for the series_id codes, joined with commas. |
| value | float | Observed value. Units follow the dataset's unit dimension (e.g. 'Current prices, million euro', 'Percentage of population in the labour force', 'Annual rate of change', 'Percentage of gross domestic product (GDP)'). Missing observations are null. |
Sample rows
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-01 | M.RCH_A.CP00.AL | Monthly, Annual rate of change, All-items HICP, Albania | 2.5 |
| 2017-01-01 | M.RCH_A.CP00.AL | Monthly, Annual rate of change, All-items HICP, Albania | 4 |
| 2017-02-01 | M.RCH_A.CP00.AL | Monthly, Annual rate of change, All-items HICP, Albania | 3.7 |
| 2017-03-01 | M.RCH_A.CP00.AL | Monthly, Annual rate of change, All-items HICP, Albania | 3.8 |
| 2017-04-01 | M.RCH_A.CP00.AL | Monthly, Annual rate of change, All-items HICP, Albania | 3.6 |
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_hicp_inflation_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_hicp_inflation_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_hicp_inflation_monthly
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.