Polish inflation at 3% in March: stats office

Inflation in Poland stood at 3 percent in year-on-year terms in March, the country’s statistics office said on Wednesday.

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The figure was in line with a flash estimate released by the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency at the end of last month.

Check how the prices of groups of consumer goods and services changed in March 2026 as compared to March 2025.

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In February, the prices of consumer goods and services in the country were 2.1 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier, according to Statistics Poland.

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In January, Poland's consumer price index also stood at 2.1 percent, data showed.

Consumer prices in March 2026 increased by 3.0% compared with the corresponding month of the previous year (price index 103.0).

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— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 15, 2026

The Polish central bank predicted in its latest Inflation Report, released on March 6, that inflation would average 2.3 percent in 2026, followed by 2.4 percent in 2027 and 2.3 percent in 2028.

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Source: IAR, PAP