Fashion pulse: Sweden — April 2026

Consumer prices (April)

Swedish headline CPI fell to −0.1 percent year-on-year in April 2026 per Statistics Sweden (SCB), down from +0.5 percent in March — the first annual decline in consumer prices since April 2020. The Riksbank's target measure, CPIF (fixed mortgage rates), eased to +0.8 percent in April from +1.6 percent in March — the smallest CPIF increase since December 2020. Food prices led the deflation at minus 5.7 percent year-on-year in April, the end point of a steep multi-month slide from plus 3.2 percent in January through plus 1.8 percent in February and 0.0 percent in March.