Average price of dessert apples in the UK since 1953
£2.13
11p
The ONS published an average UK price for dessert apples, per kg for 72 years, from 1953 (11p) to 2024 (£2.13). The highest yearly average is £2.26 in 2021. The largest rise from one year to the next was +70.0%, in 1961. In 2024 the average was – on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £1.97.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £2.13 | – | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £2.13 | -2.7% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £2.19 | -3.1% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £2.26 | +16.5% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £1.94 | -2.5% | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £1.99 | -5.2% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £2.10 | +6.6% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £1.97 | +0.5% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £1.96 | – | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £1.96 | -0.5% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £1.97 | -2.5% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £2.02 | +15.4% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £1.75 | +0.6% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £1.74 | +5.5% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £1.65 | +7.8% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £1.53 | +4.1% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £1.47 | +11.4% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £1.32 | +8.2% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £1.22 | +3.4% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £1.18 | -5.6% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £1.25 | -1.6% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £1.27 | +5.0% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £1.21 | +4.3% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £1.16 | +7.4% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £1.08 | +4.9% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £1.03 | -1.9% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £1.05 | -6.2% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £1.12 | – | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £1.12 | +12.0% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | £1.00 | +2.0% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | 98p | +14.0% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | 86p | -28.9% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £1.21 | +0.8% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.20 | +16.5% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £1.03 | +25.6% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | 82p | +7.9% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | 76p | -5.0% | |
| 1987 | 80p | +5.3% | |
| 1986 | 76p | +7.0% | |
| 1985 | 71p | +1.4% | |
| 1984 | 70p | +6.1% | |
| 1983 | 66p | -2.9% | |
| 1982 | 68p | +23.6% | |
| 1981 | 55p | +1.9% | |
| 1980 | 54p | +22.7% | |
| 1979 | 44p | -12.0% | |
| 1978 | 50p | -3.8% | |
| 1977 | 52p | +52.9% | |
| 1976 | 34p | -2.9% | |
| 1975 | 35p | +20.7% | |
| 1974 | 29p | +3.6% | |
| 1973 | 28p | +16.7% | |
| 1972 | 24p | +9.1% | |
| 1971 | 22p | +22.2% | |
| 1970 | 18p | -14.3% | |
| 1969 | 21p | +5.0% | |
| 1968 | 20p | – | |
| 1967 | 20p | +25.0% | |
| 1966 | 16p | +14.3% | |
| 1965 | 14p | +16.7% | |
| 1964 | 12p | – | |
| 1963 | 12p | – | |
| 1962 | 12p | -29.4% | |
| 1961 | 17p | +70.0% | |
| 1960 | 10p | -9.1% | |
| 1959 | 11p | +10.0% | |
| 1958 | 10p | -23.1% | |
| 1957 | 13p | +18.2% | |
| 1956 | 11p | -8.3% | |
| 1955 | 12p | +20.0% | |
| 1954 | 10p | -9.1% | |
| 1953 | 11p |
ONS series CZMY. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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