Average price of back bacon in the UK since 1967
£8.49
61p
The ONS published an average UK price for back bacon, per kg for 58 years, from 1967 (61p) to 2024 (£8.49). The highest yearly average is £9.12 in 2023. The largest rise from one year to the next was +38.4%, in 1972. In 2024 the average was -6.9% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £9.04.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £8.49 | -6.9% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £9.12 | +16.3% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £7.84 | +10.7% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £7.08 | +1.0% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £7.01 | -3.3% | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £7.25 | -3.6% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £7.52 | +3.0% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £7.30 | +0.6% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £7.26 | -14.8% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £8.52 | -5.8% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £9.04 | -0.4% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £9.08 | +1.9% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £8.91 | -1.3% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £9.03 | +4.6% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £8.63 | -3.0% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £8.90 | +8.4% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £8.21 | +6.5% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £7.71 | +2.3% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £7.54 | +6.6% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £7.07 | -0.6% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £7.11 | +0.4% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £7.08 | +1.3% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £6.99 | +1.9% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £6.86 | +13.8% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £6.03 | +2.7% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £5.87 | +6.5% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £5.51 | -7.6% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £5.96 | +1.5% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £5.87 | +0.3% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | £5.85 | +13.4% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | £5.16 | +7.3% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | £4.81 | -4.8% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £5.05 | +4.3% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £4.84 | +3.0% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £4.70 | +1.7% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | £4.62 | +12.7% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | £4.10 | +13.6% | |
| 1987 | £3.61 | +3.7% | |
| 1986 | £3.48 | +2.7% | |
| 1985 | £3.39 | -0.6% | |
| 1984 | £3.41 | +2.4% | |
| 1983 | £3.33 | +5.7% | |
| 1982 | £3.15 | – | |
| 1981 | £3.15 | +10.9% | |
| 1980 | £2.84 | +8.4% | |
| 1979 | £2.62 | +11.0% | |
| 1978 | £2.36 | +10.3% | |
| 1977 | £2.14 | +10.3% | |
| 1976 | £1.94 | +3.7% | |
| 1975 | £1.87 | +14.7% | |
| 1974 | £1.63 | +18.1% | |
| 1973 | £1.38 | +16.0% | |
| 1972 | £1.19 | +38.4% | |
| 1971 | 86p | +16.2% | |
| 1970 | 74p | +2.8% | |
| 1969 | 72p | +9.1% | |
| 1968 | 66p | +8.2% | |
| 1967 | 61p |
ONS series DOIF. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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