Polish inflation at 4.2% in April: flash estimate

Inflation in Poland stood at 4.2 percent in year-on-year terms in April, 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.

According to the flash estimate consumer #prices in #Poland in April 2025 were by 4.2% higher than a year before (price index 104.2) and increased by 0.4% (price index 100.4) as compared to March 2025.https://t.co/gT7ujupN58#StatisticsPoland #statistics #CPI pic.twitter.com/epxuW454fN

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 30, 2025

In March, the prices of consumer goods and services in Poland were 4.9 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

In January and February, Poland's consumer price index also stood at 4.9 percent, Statistics Poland reported.

Check how the prices of groups of consumer goods and services changed according to the flash estimate in April 2025 as compared to April 2024.https://t.co/gT7ujupffA#StatisticsPoland #priceindex #statistics pic.twitter.com/dIasrdauum

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 30, 2025

The statistics office said earlier this year it had revised its system of weights used for calculating the consumer price index in 2025.

Inflacja w kwietniu. GUS podał dane#PAPinformacje https://t.co/KNXTssrJpn

— PAP (@PAPinformacje) April 30, 2025

The Polish central bank predicted in its latest Inflation Report, released on March 14, that inflation would average at 4.9 percent in 2025, followed by 3.4 percent in 2026 and 2.5 percent in 2027.

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Source: PAP