Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the fourth quarter of 2025

  • Headline inflation expectations revised slightly up for 2025, mainly reflecting recent incoming data, but unchanged thereafter; pattern and impact of new data the same for expectations for HICP inflation excluding energy and food
  • Tariffs expected to have a minor downward impact on inflation in the nearer term (-0.04 and -0.06 percentage points in 2025 and 2026 respectively), but to be broadly neutral on balance in 2027 and the longer term (2030). Expected impacts are largely unrevised from previous round
  • Real GDP growth expectations unchanged except for a slight upward revision for 2025; tariffs expected to have a downward impact on real GDP growth, particularly in the nearer term. Expected impacts are largely unrevised from previous round
  • Unemployment rate expectations unchanged

Published on the 31st of October 2025

Respondents’ expectations for headline inflation, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), were 2.1% for 2025, 1.8% for 2026 and 2.0% for 2027. Expectations were revised up by 0.1 percentage points for 2025 compared with the previous survey (conducted in the third quarter of 2025), but were unchanged for 2026 and 2027. Expectations for core HICP inflation, which excludes energy and food, followed the same pattern. In both cases, the upwards revisions for 2025 mainly reflected recent incoming data. Longer-term expectations for both headline inflation and core HICP inflation were unchanged at 2.0%.

Respondents expected real GDP growth of 1.2% in 2025, 1.1% in 2026 and 1.4% in 2027. Compared with the previous survey, expectations were revised up by 0.1 percentage points for 2025 but unchanged for 2026 and 2027. Growth expectations for the longer term remained unchanged at 1.3%.

The expected trajectory of the unemployment rate was unchanged. The unemployment rate is expected to average 6.3% in 2025 and 2026 and then to fall to 6.2% in 2027, where it is expected to remain in the longer term.

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Updated on the 31st of October 2025

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