Average price of bananas in the UK since 1967
£1.03
16p
The ONS published an average UK price for bananas, per kg for 58 years, from 1967 (16p) to 2024 (£1.03). The highest yearly average is £1.19 in 1991. The largest rise from one year to the next was +25.9%, in 1975. In 2024 the average was -5.5% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was 87p.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £1.03 | -5.5% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £1.09 | +21.1% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | 90p | +12.5% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | 80p | -8.0% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | 87p | -8.4% | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 95p | +2.2% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 93p | +3.3% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | 90p | +5.9% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | 85p | -1.2% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | 86p | -1.1% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | 87p | -1.1% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | 88p | +1.1% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | 87p | +2.4% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | 85p | -13.3% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | 98p | +5.4% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | 93p | +3.3% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | 90p | +3.4% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | 87p | -3.3% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | 90p | -2.2% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | 92p | +7.0% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | 86p | -6.5% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | 92p | -10.7% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £1.03 | -2.8% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £1.06 | +7.1% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | 99p | -4.8% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £1.04 | -2.8% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £1.07 | +4.9% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £1.02 | +9.7% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | 93p | +1.1% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | 92p | -8.0% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | £1.00 | – | 2.0% |
| 1993 | £1.00 | -5.7% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £1.06 | -10.9% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.19 | +4.4% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £1.14 | +7.5% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | £1.06 | – | 5.2% |
| 1988 | £1.06 | – | |
| 1987 | £1.06 | +5.0% | |
| 1986 | £1.01 | +4.1% | |
| 1985 | 97p | +11.5% | |
| 1984 | 87p | +8.8% | |
| 1983 | 80p | +14.3% | |
| 1982 | 70p | +11.1% | |
| 1981 | 63p | +5.0% | |
| 1980 | 60p | +13.2% | |
| 1979 | 53p | +10.4% | |
| 1978 | 48p | +9.1% | |
| 1977 | 44p | +22.2% | |
| 1976 | 36p | +5.9% | |
| 1975 | 34p | +25.9% | |
| 1974 | 27p | +17.4% | |
| 1973 | 23p | +15.0% | |
| 1972 | 20p | +11.1% | |
| 1971 | 18p | – | |
| 1970 | 18p | +5.9% | |
| 1969 | 17p | +6.3% | |
| 1968 | 16p | – | |
| 1967 | 16p |
ONS series CZMV. 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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