Hungary · Inflation, Average Consumer Prices (IMF)

## What this measures

Consumer prices, annual average, percent change from the year before. Hungary.

## Why it matters

Inflation decides how far central banks tighten or ease and how much of nominal growth is real. The IMF publishes one comparable measure, with forecasts, for nearly every economy.

## How to read it

An annual average, so it moves more slowly than the twelve-month rate national agencies publish each month. Aggregates weight countries by GDP at purchasing-power parity.

Each point is one year's figure in the newest World Economic Outlook, dated December 31. The series stops the year before the WEO's own year; the IMF's forecast from there is a separate series (the same name with "IMF Projection"), so this line never mixes measured and forecast years. The newest year is often still an IMF estimate, and the whole history is revised with each edition.

## What it does not say

Forecasts assume current policies. A few countries in very high inflation can swing the aggregates; the IMF excludes some from regional averages, as each WEO notes.

## Source

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026 (the IMF's published database file, WEOOct2026all.xlsx). Figures as published, rounded to at most four decimals. Provided by the IMF "as is" and available free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor.