Average price of cooking apples in the UK since 1968
£2.11
16p
The ONS published an average UK price for cooking apples, per kg for 55 years, from 1968 (16p) to 2022 (£2.11). The highest yearly average is £2.11 in 2022. The largest rise from one year to the next was +41.3%, in 1982. In 2022 the average was +8.2% on 2021; all-items CPI inflation that year was 9.1%. Ten years earlier, in 2012, the average was £1.54.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £2.11 | +8.2% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £1.95 | +0.5% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £1.94 | +6.0% | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £1.83 | -3.7% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £1.90 | +8.0% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £1.76 | +2.3% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £1.72 | +4.2% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £1.65 | -4.1% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £1.72 | -13.6% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £1.99 | +29.2% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £1.54 | +3.4% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £1.49 | -1.3% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £1.51 | -0.7% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £1.52 | -1.3% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £1.54 | +4.1% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £1.48 | +2.8% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £1.44 | – | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £1.44 | -4.0% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £1.50 | +1.4% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £1.48 | +26.5% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £1.17 | -0.8% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £1.18 | +11.3% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £1.06 | +1.9% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £1.04 | -18.1% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £1.27 | +5.8% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £1.20 | +8.1% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £1.11 | +22.0% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | 91p | +1.1% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | 90p | +3.4% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | 87p | -7.4% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | 94p | -15.3% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.11 | +14.4% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | 97p | +26.0% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | 77p | -6.1% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | 82p | +18.8% | |
| 1987 | 69p | -2.8% | |
| 1986 | 71p | +18.3% | |
| 1985 | 60p | -13.0% | |
| 1984 | 69p | +25.5% | |
| 1983 | 55p | -15.4% | |
| 1982 | 65p | +41.3% | |
| 1981 | 46p | +2.2% | |
| 1980 | 45p | +32.4% | |
| 1979 | 34p | -19.0% | |
| 1978 | 42p | +5.0% | |
| 1977 | 40p | +21.2% | |
| 1976 | 33p | +13.8% | |
| 1975 | 29p | +31.8% | |
| 1974 | 22p | -8.3% | |
| 1973 | 24p | +33.3% | |
| 1972 | 18p | +38.5% | |
| 1971 | 13p | – | |
| 1970 | 13p | -18.7% | |
| 1969 | 16p | – | |
| 1968 | 16p |
ONS series CZMZ. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
File: mm23.csv. Read 2026-10-15. SHA-256
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