According to the European Central Bank consumer price index, the euro experienced an average inflation rate of 1.13% per year. Prices in 2016 are 9.4% higher than prices in 2008.
In other words, €100 in the year 2008 is equivalent in purchasing power to €109.44 in 2016, a difference of €9.44 over 8 years.
The inflation rate in 2016 was 0.14%.
|Cumulative price change||9.44%|
|Average inflation rate||1.13%|
|Price difference (€100 base)||€9.44|
|CPI in 2008||91.50833333|
|CPI in 2016||100.1445455|
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Raw data for these calculations comes from the European Commission and the European Central Bank's Harmonized Index of Consumer prices (HICP), which is computed based on the reported consumer price indices in member countries of the European Union.
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