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Audio-visual, photographic and computer equipment inflation: annual rate by year since 1989

Annual rate, 2025
-0.9%
ONS, CPI
12 months to August 2026
0.9%
ONS series D7H6

The ONS gives an annual CPI rate for audio-visual, photographic and computer equipment (COICOP 09.1) for every year from 1989 to 2025: 37 years. In 2025 prices in this class were 0.9% lower on average than in 2024, against 3.4% for all CPI items. The highest yearly rate in the series is 2.3% in 2021; the lowest is -13.5% in 2008. The rate for this class was higher than the all-items CPI rate in 0 of the 37 years where both are published. Prices in this class fell on average in 30 years. The index (2015 = 100) stood at 100.0 in 2015 and 95.7 in 2025.

2.3%-13.5% 19892025
Every value in the official series, 1989 to 2025.

Audio-visual, photographic and computer equipment inflation by year

YearAnnual rateIndex (2015 = 100)CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7)Difference
2025-0.9%95.73.4%-4.3 points
20241.3%96.52.5%-1.2 points
20231.0%95.37.3%-6.3 points
20220.4%94.39.1%-8.7 points
20212.3%94.02.6%-0.3 points
2020-0.2%91.90.9%-1.1 points
2019-2.3%92.01.8%-4.1 points
2018-1.8%94.22.5%-4.3 points
20171.2%95.92.7%-1.5 points
2016-5.2%94.80.7%-5.9 points
2015-8.8%100.00.0%-8.8 points
2014-4.2%109.61.5%-5.7 points
2013-5.0%114.52.6%-7.6 points
2012-7.8%120.52.8%-10.6 points
2011-9.8%130.74.5%-14.3 points
2010-5.4%144.93.3%-8.7 points
2009-11.0%153.22.2%-13.2 points
2008-13.5%172.13.6%-17.1 points
2007-10.8%199.02.3%-13.1 points
2006-10.6%223.02.3%-12.9 points
2005-11.6%249.42.1%-13.7 points
2004-10.4%282.11.3%-11.7 points
2003-9.4%314.91.4%-10.8 points
2002-6.6%347.61.3%-7.9 points
2001-6.9%372.31.2%-8.1 points
2000-9.4%400.00.8%-10.2 points
1999-11.9%441.61.3%-13.2 points
1998-11.4%501.01.6%-13.0 points
1997-9.0%565.51.8%-10.8 points
1996-5.6%621.52.4%-8.0 points
1995-4.0%658.42.6%-6.6 points
1994-3.2%686.12.0%-5.2 points
1993-0.9%709.02.5%-3.4 points
1992-1.9%715.44.2%-6.1 points
19910.5%729.27.5%-7.0 points
19900.4%725.37.0%-6.6 points
1989-2.3%722.35.2%-7.5 points

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Latest monthly rates

Month12-month rate
August 20260.9%
July 20263.0%
June 20261.2%
May 2026-1.5%
April 20260.1%
March 2026-4.2%
February 2026-2.4%
January 2026-1.8%
December 2025-1.8%
November 20252.7%
October 2025-2.3%
September 2025-4.1%
August 2025-3.1%
July 2025-2.0%
June 20250.6%
May 2025-1.0%
April 2025-1.2%
March 2025-1.3%
February 20252.6%
January 20250.6%
December 20240.0%
November 2024-3.1%
October 2024-0.1%
September 20243.3%
August 20242.2%

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