Average price of cigarettes in the UK since 1987
£15.85
£1.43
The ONS published an average UK price for cigarettes, per 20 king size filter for 38 years, from 1987 (£1.43) to 2024 (£15.85). The highest yearly average is £15.85 in 2024. The largest rise from one year to the next was +13.4%, in 1991. In 2024 the average was +11.2% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £8.40.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per 20 king size filter) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £15.85 | +11.2% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £14.25 | +13.0% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £12.61 | +9.5% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £11.52 | +3.7% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £11.11 | +3.2% | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £10.77 | +5.3% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £10.23 | +7.2% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £9.54 | +2.6% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £9.30 | +4.7% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £8.88 | +5.7% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £8.40 | +8.2% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £7.76 | +9.3% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £7.10 | +8.9% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £6.52 | +11.3% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £5.86 | +7.9% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £5.43 | +2.3% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £5.31 | +5.8% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £5.02 | +5.5% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £4.76 | +4.2% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £4.57 | +4.1% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £4.39 | +3.5% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £4.24 | +2.4% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £4.14 | +0.5% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £4.12 | +5.4% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £3.91 | +9.2% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £3.58 | +12.2% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £3.19 | +8.5% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £2.94 | +7.7% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £2.73 | +5.4% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | £2.59 | +7.5% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | £2.41 | +7.6% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | £2.24 | +8.2% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £2.07 | +11.3% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.86 | +13.4% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £1.64 | +8.6% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | £1.51 | +2.0% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | £1.48 | +3.5% | |
| 1987 | £1.43 |
ONS series CZMP. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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