The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has released data on inflation and consumer prices in Bulgaria for October 2025, showing a monthly increase of 0.9% and an annual inflation rate of 5.3%. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures monthly inflation as the change from September 2025, while annual inflation compares October 2025 to the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n
Clothing and footwear saw the largest price jump last month, rising by 7.1%, followed by entertainment and culture at 5.5%, and education by 1.1%. Conversely, transport costs fell by 0.2%, as did prices for housing furnishings, household goods, and related services. Other categories such as restaurants and hotels remained unchanged.<\/p>\n
Food prices also shifted, with notable increases for cucumbers (+9.6%), peppers (+5.8%), and tomatoes (+5.2%). Cocoa, ice cream, beer, and carbonated drinks rose between 2.7% and 4.7%, while fresh vegetable spices, frozen fish, and basic staples such as oil and lentils recorded more moderate increases of 1.0\u20132.4%. On the other hand, cabbage (-9.2%), onions (-6.5%), grapes (-5.0%), apples (-4.5%), and potatoes (-3.4%) saw significant declines, alongside smaller reductions for beef, rice, dairy products, and poultry.<\/p>\n
Non-food items also experienced mixed changes. Shoes (+8.6%) and clothing (+6.6%) led the increases, alongside rising costs for LTS driver courses (+3.9%), boilers (+2.9%), air conditioners (+2.2%), and refrigerators (+1.8%). Other smaller increases included cleaning products, barbershop services, gardening, and cinema tickets. Price drops were observed for international flights (-10.6%), short-term accommodation (-3.7%), washing powders (-2.4%), televisions (-2.3%), and various household appliances and fuels.<\/p>\n
Healthcare costs rose modestly in October, with medical laboratory services increasing by 1.6%, medical consultations by 1.1%, and dental services by 0.8%, while medication prices remained steady.<\/p>\n
Cumulative inflation, measured by the CPI, shows a 13.5% increase over the last three years (October 2025 compared to October 2022) and a 41.5% rise over the last five years (October 2025 compared to October 2020).<\/p>\n
The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) reported slightly lower rates: monthly inflation of 0.4% and annual inflation of 3.8%. Since the start of the year, HICP inflation is 3.2%, with the average annual rate over the last twelve months at 3.3%. Clothing and footwear again recorded the highest growth at 6.2%, followed by entertainment and culture (+2.0%) and education (+1.1%). Restaurants and hotels (-1.1%) and transport (-0.7%) saw price declines, while other categories experienced minimal changes. Three- and five-year cumulative HICP inflation stands at 12.2% and 35.5%, respectively.<\/p>\n
The Small Consumer Price Index (SCPI), reflecting the lowest-income 20% of households, indicated a monthly increase of 0.4% in October. Within this group, non-food goods rose by 0.6%, food products by 0.5%, and services by 0.1%.<\/p>\n
In sum, October 2025 data highlight rising costs for clothing, footwear, and essential goods, while some staple foods and transport-related items saw price relief. The monthly CPI of 0.9% brings the wholesale basket to an estimated 101.0 BGN (\u20ac51.5), while cumulative inflation since the start of the year reflects the continuing pressure on household budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has released data on inflation and consumer prices in Bulgaria for October 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-139978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}