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Garments inflation: annual rate by year since 1989

Annual rate, 2025
0.6%
ONS, CPI
12 months to August 2026
0.4%
ONS series D7HW

The ONS gives an annual CPI rate for garments (COICOP 03.1.2) for every year from 1989 to 2025: 37 years. In 2025 prices in this class were 0.6% higher on average than in 2024, against 3.4% for all CPI items. The highest yearly rate in the series is 7.9% in 2022; the lowest is -9.2% in 2009. The rate for this class was higher than the all-items CPI rate in 3 of the 37 years where both are published. Prices in this class fell on average in 21 years. The index (2015 = 100) stood at 100.0 in 2015 and 123.2 in 2025.

7.9%-9.2% 19892025
Every value in the official series, 1989 to 2025.

Garments inflation by year

YearAnnual rateIndex (2015 = 100)CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7)Difference
20250.6%123.23.4%-2.8 points
20243.1%122.52.5%+0.6 points
20237.3%118.87.3%–
20227.9%110.79.1%-1.2 points
20210.5%102.52.6%-2.1 points
2020-1.8%102.00.9%-2.7 points
2019-0.3%103.91.8%-2.1 points
20180.9%104.22.5%-1.6 points
20173.0%103.32.7%+0.3 points
20160.3%100.30.7%-0.4 points
20150.4%100.00.0%+0.4 points
20140.6%99.61.5%-0.9 points
20131.2%99.02.6%-1.4 points
20120.9%97.82.8%-1.9 points
20113.3%96.94.5%-1.2 points
2010-1.3%93.83.3%-4.6 points
2009-9.2%95.02.2%-11.4 points
2008-7.5%104.73.6%-11.1 points
2007-4.4%113.22.3%-6.7 points
2006-4.4%118.42.3%-6.7 points
2005-5.7%123.82.1%-7.8 points
2004-5.5%131.31.3%-6.8 points
2003-4.4%138.91.4%-5.8 points
2002-8.3%145.41.3%-9.6 points
2001-8.5%158.51.2%-9.7 points
2000-8.3%173.20.8%-9.1 points
1999-5.8%188.91.3%-7.1 points
1998-4.2%200.61.6%-5.8 points
1997-2.3%209.31.8%-4.1 points
1996-3.5%214.22.4%-5.9 points
1995-2.6%222.02.6%-5.2 points
1994-2.4%227.82.0%-4.4 points
1993-2.7%233.52.5%-5.2 points
1992-2.0%239.84.2%-6.2 points
19910.3%244.67.5%-7.2 points
19902.8%243.87.0%-4.2 points
19894.1%237.35.2%-1.1 points

ONS series D7HW, index D7DK. About these tables · CSV

Latest monthly rates

Month12-month rate
August 20260.4%
July 20261.0%
June 2026-0.2%
May 20260.7%
April 20261.3%
March 2026-0.3%
February 20261.7%
January 20260.5%
December 20250.5%
November 2025-0.4%
October 20250.7%
September 20251.1%
August 20250.7%
July 20250.6%
June 20250.9%
May 20250.0%
April 2025-0.1%
March 20251.4%
February 2025-0.6%
January 20252.2%
December 20241.7%
November 20243.0%
October 20241.8%
September 20241.2%
August 20242.1%

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