Consumer price index, March 2019

• +1.3% on the same month a year earlier (provisional result confirmed)
• +0.4% on the previous month (provisional result confirmed)

Consumer prices in Germany soared up by 1.3% in March 2019 compared with March 2018.

This was a decline in the inflation rate – as measured by the consumer price index – which had been 1.5% in February 2019. Compared with February 2019, the consumer price index rose by 0.4% in March 2019.