The annual inflation rate was 0.36% in September 2025 compared to August 2025.
Services prices grew by 10.36%, food prices increased by 7.8% and prices of non-food items were 11.09% higher in September 2025 compared with September 2024.
In September 2025 versus September 2024, the highest food prices were recorded by fresh fruit (+32%), coffee (17%) and milk (11%). Instead, potato prices fell by 10.4%.
In terms of services, the biggest price increases in annual terms were registered for hygiene and cosmetics (19%), train tickets (18.5%), clothing (15.5%), car repair and healthcare (15.7%). Instead, air transport prices dropped 14.9%.
In September 2025 versus September 2024, the highest price hikes in non-food items were recorded by electric energy, with 69%, heat energy, with 13.6%, and books, newspapers, magazines, with 10.4%.
The inflation rate since the beginning of the year (September 2025 compared to December 2024) is 8.5%.
The annual inflation rate in September 2025 compared to September 2024 is 9.9%.
The average rate of change in consumer prices over the last 12 months (October 2024-September 2025) compared to the previous 12 months (October 2023-September 2024) is 6.1%.
The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices in September 2025 compared to August 2025 is 100.50%.
The HICP-based annual inflation rate in September 2025 compared to September 2024 is 8.6%.
The HICP-based average rate of change in consumer prices over the last 12 months (October 2024-September 2025) compared to the previous 12 months (October 2023-September 2024) is 5.9%.
“In July 2025, the annual inflation rate went up to 7.84 percent from 5.66 percent in June 2025, while in August it rose to 9.85 percent, above the forecast, given the expiry of the electricity price capping scheme and the hike in VAT rates and excise duties as of 1 August, following the package of fiscal and budgetary measures adopted in July. The transitory direct effects of the two successive supply-side inflationary shocks affected primarily the aggregate dynamics of the exogenous CPI components, mainly via the particularly strong pick-up in electricity prices,” Romania’s central bank has announced in its monetary policy meeting on October 8, 2025