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EEA consumer prices up 2.3 per cent
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Harmonized index of consumer prices, May 2004

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EEA consumer prices up 2.3 per cent

The harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) for the EEA was 115.5 (1996=100) in May. The year-to-year change in May was 2.3 per cent in the EEA. In comparison, the HICP for Norway increased by 1.0 per cent in the same period.

The HICP in the euro-zone was 115.9 in May. In advance, Eurostat estimated the year-to-year growth in May in the euro-zone to 2.5 per cent, which turned out to be the actual price growth.

For Norway the HICP was 117.0 in May, up 0.1 per cent from April. From May 2003 to May 2004 the consumer prices increased by 1.0 per cent, up from 0.4 per cent in April.

For more information, please see Eurostat's News Releases .

Harmonized Indices of Consumer
Prices for Norway and other selected
countries. Change in per cent
  March 2003-
March 2004 		April 2003-
April 2004 		May 2003-
May 2004
Norway -0.4 0.4 1.0
Iceland 1.0 1.5 2.4
Sweden 0.4 1.1 1.5
Denmark 0.4 0.5 1.1
Finland -0.4 -0.4 -0.1
Germany 1.1 1.7 2.1
UK 1.1 1.2 1.5
EEA 1.5 1.8 22.3
EU 1.5 1.8 22.3
Euro-zone 1.7 2.0 22.5
US1 1.7 ... ...
Japan1 ... ... ...
1  National CPI.
2  Provisional or preliminary figures.
Source:  Statistics Norway and EUROSTAT.