Croatia's annual inflation rate rose to 4.1% in July 2025, up from 3.7% in June, as per preliminary reports. This is the highest inflation rate recorded since March 2024, primarily fueled by increasing costs in sectors like food, beverages, and tobacco (6.6%), services (5.7%), energy (2.3%), and non-food industrial goods excluding energy (0.4%). On a monthly scale, consumer prices experienced a 0.4% uptick in July after a 0.2% rise in June.