Consumer Price Index (CPI). By comsumer groups
| Index | Variation monthly % | Variation year-over-year % | Variation since the beginning of the year % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General index | 101.108 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 0.1 |
| Food and non-alcoholic beverages | 102.260 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 1.2 |
| Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics | 103.291 | 0.3 | 4.0 | 2.3 |
| Clothing and footwear | 93.452 | -1.2 | -0.3 | -13.1 |
| Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels | 101.871 | -0.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance | 100.355 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Health | 101.012 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
| Transport | 99.993 | 0.9 | -0.4 | -0.4 |
| Information and communication | 101.198 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.0 |
| Recreation, sport and culture | 98.867 | 0.3 | 1.5 | -2.8 |
| Education services | 102.129 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| Restaurants and accommodation services | 101.647 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 1.3 |
| Insurance and financial services | 102.743 | -0.1 | 4.6 | 1.3 |
| Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services | 102.885 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 1.9 |
| Units: Index (Base 2025 = 100). | ||||
| Source: INE. | ||||
| Index | Variation monthly % | Variation year-over-year % | Variation since the beginning of the year % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General index | 101.261 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| Food and non-alcoholic beverages | 102.380 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 1.1 |
| Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics | 103.667 | 0.4 | 4.7 | 2.2 |
| Clothing and footwear | 92.284 | -0.9 | -1.3 | -13.9 |
| Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels | 102.371 | -0.3 | 1.9 | 0.6 |
| Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance | 100.364 | 0.2 | 0.9 | -0.1 |
| Health | 101.440 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 0.7 |
| Transport | 100.423 | 0.8 | 0.1 | -0.3 |
| Information and communication | 100.872 | 0.3 | -0.3 | 1.8 |
| Recreation, sport and culture | 98.875 | 0.1 | 1.3 | -2.7 |
| Education services | 101.777 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 0.0 |
| Restaurants and accommodation services | 102.074 | 0.9 | 4.8 | 1.0 |
| Insurance and financial services | 102.222 | -0.1 | 3.7 | 1.1 |
| Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services | 102.390 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 1.4 |
| Units: Index (Base 2025 = 100). | ||||
| Source: INE. | ||||
Last update: March 13, 2026. Next update: April 14, 2026
Methodological note
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the change over time in the prices of consumer goods and services purchased by people living in households in Spain. Consumer expenditure means the monetary flow paid for the acquisition of goods and services classified as such in a nomenclature expressly drawn up by the INE. Expenditure which could be classified as investment, such as buying a house or flat, is excluded.
The CPI is calculated based on the Laspeyres formula, which is a weighted arithmetic mean of the price indexes of the various consumer items covered. Since January 2026 a new consumer price index system, CPI base 2025, has been used which is designed to provide more representative coverage and greater precision in measuring change in this indicator by expanding the sample of towns, increasing the number of prices gathered, changes in the make-up of the basket of consumer articles and more updated weightings.
The number of municipalities and establishments in the 2021 base is the same as in the previous base. Prices are collected in 177 municipalities and around 33,000 establishments serve as a sample to collect the 200,000 prices with which the CPI is calculated each month.
The most noticeable changes in the configuration of the base 2021 basket of goods are the incorporation of hygienic masks and subscription to online newspapers. From 2023, the CPI expands coverage of the energy sector with the incorporation of the part related to the free market of the gas and electricity sectors.
The CPI, base 2025, maintains the main characteristics of the CPI, base 2021, and, like the latter, it will annually revise the weightings for a certain level of functional disaggregation. The most significant change in the new base is the adaptation to the new european classification of consumption (ECOICOP ver. 2)
The number of items that make up the basket of goods is 487.
The weighting structure for base 2021 has been drawn up based on the Survey of Family Budgets (SFB). Furthermore, information from other sources has been used to determine the final structure:
- change in private consumer spending from National Accounting
- change in CPI prices
- other sources about supply in the various sectors
Consumer expenditure has been classified in accordance with a nomenclature drawn up by the INE based on the ECOICOP ver. 2 (European Classification Of Individual Consumption by Purpose), a harmonized European Union nomenclature. Consumer items that are going to remain on the market and are regularly consumed by the public are chosen.
For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.