Polish inflation at 2.4% in December: flash estimate

Inflation in Poland stood at 2.4 percent year-on-year in December, the country's statistics office said in a flash estimate on Wednesday.

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The reading was 0.1 percentage point lower than forecast by economists polled by Poland's PAP news agency.

How the #prices of groups of consumer goods and services changed according to the flash estimate in December 2025 as compared to December 2024?

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— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) December 31, 2025

'Good news to round out the year': PM

Prime Minister Donald Tusk welcomed the data in a post on X, calling it "good news to round out the year."

Dobra wiadomość na koniec roku. Inflacja w grudniu spadła do 2,4%! Tego na szczęście nikt nie zawetuje.

— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) December 31, 2025

In November, the prices of consumer goods and services in Poland were 2.5 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

In October, Poland's consumer price index stood at 2.8 percent, Statistics Poland reported.

In December 2025, according to a flash estimate, consumer #prices were 2.4% higher Year over Year (price index 102.4) and unchanged from the previous month (price index 100.0).

🔗 https://t.co/lkCRLVvA0K#StatisticsPoland #statistics pic.twitter.com/w8rHJneMZw

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) December 31, 2025

Next year, Polish inflation is expected to average 3.1 percent, under the country's budget approved by parliament earlier this month.

The Polish central bank predicted in its latest Inflation Report, released on November 7, that inflation would average 3.7 percent in 2025, followed by 2.9 percent in 2026 and 2.5 percent in 2027.

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Source: IAR, PAP