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Dental services inflation: annual rate by year since 2001

Annual rate, 2025
6.0%
ONS, CPI
12 months to August 2026
5.2%
ONS series D7NT

The ONS gives an annual CPI rate for dental services (COICOP 06.2.2) for every year from 2001 to 2025: 25 years. In 2025 prices in this class were 6.0% higher on average than in 2024, against 3.4% for all CPI items. The highest yearly rate in the series is 6.0% in 2025; the lowest is 1.7% in 2010. The rate for this class was higher than the all-items CPI rate in 18 of the 25 years where both are published. The index (2015 = 100) stood at 100.0 in 2015 and 150.7 in 2025.

6%0% 20012025
Every value in the official series, 2001 to 2025.

Dental services inflation by year

YearAnnual rateIndex (2015 = 100)CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7)Difference
20256.0%150.73.4%+2.6 points
20245.3%142.22.5%+2.8 points
20235.9%135.17.3%-1.4 points
20224.0%127.69.1%-5.1 points
20213.0%122.62.6%+0.4 points
20203.6%119.10.9%+2.7 points
20193.7%115.01.8%+1.9 points
20183.7%110.82.5%+1.2 points
20173.8%106.82.7%+1.1 points
20162.9%102.90.7%+2.2 points
20152.4%100.00.0%+2.4 points
20142.1%97.61.5%+0.6 points
20132.5%95.62.6%-0.1 points
20122.6%93.32.8%-0.2 points
20112.7%91.04.5%-1.8 points
20101.7%88.63.3%-1.6 points
20092.8%87.22.2%+0.6 points
20083.2%84.83.6%-0.4 points
20075.5%82.22.3%+3.2 points
20065.5%77.92.3%+3.2 points
20054.7%73.82.1%+2.6 points
20044.5%70.51.3%+3.2 points
20034.1%67.51.4%+2.7 points
20023.2%64.81.3%+1.9 points
20014.2%62.81.2%+3.0 points

ONS series D7NT, index D7FB. About these tables · CSV

Latest monthly rates

Month12-month rate
August 20265.2%
July 20265.2%
June 20265.1%
May 20265.2%
April 20265.4%
March 20265.4%
February 20265.8%
January 20265.9%
December 20256.4%
November 20256.7%
October 20256.4%
September 20256.1%
August 20256.0%
July 20255.5%
June 20255.7%
May 20255.6%
April 20255.6%
March 20256.3%
February 20256.0%
January 20255.3%
December 20244.6%
November 20244.5%
October 20244.9%
September 20244.9%
August 20244.6%

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