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Sweden’s inflation fell to 0.2% as energy prices dropped

Energy pulled the headline rate down from 0.7%. The explainer shows why falling inflation does not mean that household prices have fallen.

A newly installed digital household electricity meter with a zero reading, photographed in Berlin in January 2025.
RobbieIanMorrison / CC BY 4.0

Sweden's preliminary CPI inflation rate fell to 0.2 percent in July from 0.7 percent in June. That number measures how the average price level changed over a year. It does not say that every household's bills became cheaper.

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