{
  "study": {
    "slug": "energy-inflation-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Energy Prices Fell on Average in the EU but Rose 7.6% in Austria",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/energy-inflation-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Energy price inflation, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "annual average % change",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest EU Member States, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "The EU figure is negative: energy prices across the Union were lower on average in 2025 than in 2024. Sixteen Member States were above the EU figure and eleven below it.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "HICP - annual data (average index and rate of change)",
    "code": "prc_hicp_aind",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "RCH_A_AVG",
      "coicop": "NRG, CP011, SERV",
      "time": "2025"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-08-11",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-02-06",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/prc_hicp_aind",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_aind/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Austria",
      "value": 7.6,
      "gap_to_reference": 8.2,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Romania",
      "value": 7.5,
      "gap_to_reference": 8.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Belgium",
      "value": 4.7,
      "gap_to_reference": 5.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": -0.6,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Czechia",
      "value": -4.4,
      "gap_to_reference": -3.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Cyprus",
      "value": -5.2,
      "gap_to_reference": -4.6,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "France",
      "value": -5.4,
      "gap_to_reference": -4.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}