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Fruit inflation: annual rate by year since 1989

Annual rate, 2025
3.3%
ONS, CPI
12 months to August 2026
2.2%
ONS series D7HM

The ONS gives an annual CPI rate for fruit (COICOP 01.1.6) for every year from 1989 to 2025: 37 years. In 2025 prices in this class were 3.3% higher on average than in 2024, against 3.4% for all CPI items. The highest yearly rate in the series is 12.4% in 1990; the lowest is -5.6% in 1993. The rate for this class was higher than the all-items CPI rate in 15 of the 37 years where both are published. Prices in this class fell on average in 6 years. The index (2015 = 100) stood at 100.0 in 2015 and 136.9 in 2025.

12.4%-5.6% 19892025
Every value in the official series, 1989 to 2025.

Fruit inflation by year

YearAnnual rateIndex (2015 = 100)CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7)Difference
20253.3%136.93.4%-0.1 points
20243.4%132.62.5%+0.9 points
20238.2%128.27.3%+0.9 points
20227.3%118.59.1%-1.8 points
20211.4%110.42.6%-1.2 points
20201.4%108.80.9%+0.5 points
20190.5%107.31.8%-1.3 points
20182.9%106.72.5%+0.4 points
20172.6%103.82.7%-0.1 points
20161.1%101.10.7%+0.4 points
2015-0.2%100.00.0%-0.2 points
20140.3%100.21.5%-1.2 points
20138.6%99.92.6%+6.0 points
20121.7%92.02.8%-1.1 points
20113.7%90.44.5%-0.8 points
20107.9%87.13.3%+4.6 points
20094.7%80.82.2%+2.5 points
20086.7%77.13.6%+3.1 points
20071.4%72.32.3%-0.9 points
20060.8%71.32.3%-1.5 points
20051.2%70.72.1%-0.9 points
2004-2.8%69.91.3%-4.1 points
20031.2%71.91.4%-0.2 points
20021.1%71.01.3%-0.2 points
20018.7%70.21.2%+7.5 points
20000.4%64.60.8%-0.4 points
1999-0.8%64.41.3%-2.1 points
19981.3%64.91.6%-0.3 points
19972.7%64.01.8%+0.9 points
19963.0%62.42.4%+0.6 points
19955.1%60.52.6%+2.5 points
19941.8%57.62.0%-0.2 points
1993-5.6%56.62.5%-8.1 points
1992-5.5%59.94.2%-9.7 points
199110.4%63.47.5%+2.9 points
199012.4%57.47.0%+5.4 points
1989-0.4%51.15.2%-5.6 points

ONS series D7HM, index D7DA. About these tables · CSV

Latest monthly rates

Month12-month rate
August 20262.2%
July 20262.1%
June 20262.7%
May 20262.6%
April 20263.1%
March 20263.1%
February 20262.5%
January 20262.4%
December 20251.8%
November 20252.4%
October 20252.1%
September 20254.1%
August 20253.8%
July 20253.5%
June 20253.8%
May 20253.2%
April 20253.3%
March 20253.6%
February 20254.2%
January 20253.5%
December 20243.7%
November 20242.4%
October 20243.7%
September 20243.8%
August 20242.1%

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