The annual inflation rate in the euro area was 8.1% in May, up from 7.4% in April, according to figures released by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) on Friday 17 June.
In the European Union, it stood at 8.8% in May 2022, up from 8.1% in the previous month. A year earlier, it was 2.0% in the eurozone and 2.3% in the EU.
The lowest annual rates were recorded in France, Malta (both 5.8%) and Finland (7.1%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Estonia (20.1%), Lithuania (18.5%) and Latvia (16.8%). Inflation was 7.3% in Italy, 8.5% in Germany, and 8.7% in Spain.
Compared with April, annual inflation fell in one Member State and rose in 26.
In May, the highest contribution to the annual eurozone inflation rate came from energy (+3.87 percentage points, pp), followed by food, alcohol & tobacco (+1.59 pp) and services (+1.46 pp). (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)