EU annual inflation was 5.2% in November 2021, up from 4.4% in October. A year earlier, the rate was 0.2%. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU. The lowest annual rates were registered in Malta (2.4%), Portugal (2.6%) and France (3.4%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Lithuania (9.3%), Estonia (8.6%) and Hungary (7.5%). Compared with October, annual inflation remained stable in one Member State and rose in twenty-six. In November, the highest contribution to the annual euro area inflation rate came from energy (+2.57 percentage points, pp), followed by services (+1.16 pp), non-energy industrial goods (+0.64 pp) and food, alcohol & tobacco (+0.49 pp).