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Financial services inflation: annual rate by year since 1989

Annual rate, 2025
1.9%
ONS, CPI
12 months to August 2026
-1.9%
ONS series D7HG

The ONS gives an annual CPI rate for financial services (COICOP 12.6) for every year from 1989 to 2025: 37 years. In 2025 prices in this class were 1.9% higher on average than in 2024, against 3.4% for all CPI items. The highest yearly rate in the series is 11.8% in 1990; the lowest is -15.9% in 2002. The rate for this class was higher than the all-items CPI rate in 8 of the 37 years where both are published. Prices in this class fell on average in 18 years. The index (2015 = 100) stood at 100.0 in 2015 and 91.8 in 2025.

11.8%-15.9% 19892025
Every value in the official series, 1989 to 2025.

Financial services inflation by year

YearAnnual rateIndex (2015 = 100)CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7)Difference
20251.9%91.83.4%-1.5 points
20240.2%90.12.5%-2.3 points
20231.4%89.97.3%-5.9 points
20221.2%88.69.1%-7.9 points
2021-2.4%87.62.6%-5.0 points
2020-3.9%89.70.9%-4.8 points
2019-1.1%93.41.8%-2.9 points
2018-4.2%94.52.5%-6.7 points
2017-1.2%98.62.7%-3.9 points
2016-0.2%99.80.7%-0.9 points
2015-2.3%100.00.0%-2.3 points
2014-3.1%102.31.5%-4.6 points
20130.1%105.62.6%-2.5 points
20121.5%105.52.8%-1.3 points
2011-3.1%103.94.5%-7.6 points
2010-3.6%107.23.3%-6.9 points
2009-0.3%111.22.2%-2.5 points
20080.2%111.53.6%-3.4 points
2007-1.3%111.22.3%-3.6 points
20064.4%112.72.3%+2.1 points
20057.5%107.92.1%+5.4 points
20044.3%100.31.3%+3.0 points
2003-1.7%96.21.4%-3.1 points
2002-15.9%97.91.3%-17.2 points
2001-10.5%116.51.2%-11.7 points
2000-10.2%130.20.8%-11.0 points
1999-2.7%145.01.3%-4.0 points
19983.1%149.11.6%+1.5 points
19971.2%144.51.8%-0.6 points
19960.6%142.92.4%-1.8 points
1995-0.1%142.02.6%-2.7 points
19949.6%142.12.0%+7.6 points
19932.2%129.72.5%-0.3 points
19924.8%126.94.2%+0.6 points
19917.0%121.17.5%-0.5 points
199011.8%113.27.0%+4.8 points
19895.3%101.35.2%+0.1 points

ONS series D7HG, index D7D4. About these tables · CSV

Latest monthly rates

Month12-month rate
August 2026-1.9%
July 2026-2.6%
June 2026-1.5%
May 2026-1.5%
April 2026-1.5%
March 2026-1.2%
February 2026-1.2%
January 2026-1.1%
December 20250.6%
November 20250.7%
October 20250.8%
September 20250.9%
August 20252.1%
July 20251.8%
June 20252.4%
May 20252.4%
April 20252.1%
March 20253.4%
February 20253.4%
January 20252.7%
December 20241.5%
November 20240.7%
October 20240.4%
September 20240.4%
August 20240.3%

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