Receipt no. HICP-2025-12

A €100 basket from December 2019 now costs €127 in the EU. In Hungary €158. In Switzerland €106.

Eurostat tracks the price of a typical household basket in 31 European countries. Same shop, same list, six years apart.


Item 1: your guess

The EU-wide basket cost €100 in December 2019. What does it cost in December 2025?

€120
€100 (no change)€200 (doubled)


Item 2: the whole shelf

Move the start month. Every bar shows what €100 spent in that month costs in December 2025. Bars start at €100. The black tick is the EU average.

Jan 2019Nov 2025

dearer than EU average   cheaper   Tap a row for its history.


Item 3: one country against the EU


Item 4: did your pay keep up?

Real change in your selected country


Source: Eurostat, HICP monthly index (2015=100), all items, table prc_hicp_midx, fetched through the Eurostat API; data January 2019 to December 2025, dataset updated 6 Feb 2026. EU = EU27 aggregate. Not shown: Turkey (basket cost up 7 times since 2019) and the UK and US (series incomplete).

One caveat: this is an average basket. Your own rent, food and fuel mix will give a different number, and the price rise is a ratio of index values, not of euro prices.