Average price of draught bitter in the UK since 1987
£3.90
83p
The ONS published an average UK price for draught bitter, per pint for 36 years, from 1987 (83p) to 2024 (£3.90). The highest yearly average is £3.90 in 2024. The largest rise from one year to the next was +13.8%, in 1991. In 2024 the average was +2.6% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £2.94.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per pint) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £3.90 | +2.6% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £3.80 | +8.9% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £3.49 | 9.1% | |
| 2019 | £3.09 | +1.0% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £3.06 | +0.3% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £3.05 | +1.7% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £3.00 | +1.0% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £2.97 | +1.0% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £2.94 | +2.4% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £2.87 | +2.5% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £2.80 | +4.1% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £2.69 | +4.3% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £2.58 | +4.0% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £2.48 | +3.8% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £2.39 | +3.9% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £2.30 | +4.5% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £2.20 | +4.3% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £2.11 | +4.5% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £2.02 | +4.1% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £1.94 | +7.2% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £1.81 | – | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £1.81 | +1.7% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £1.78 | +2.9% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £1.73 | +2.4% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £1.69 | +3.7% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £1.63 | +5.8% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £1.54 | +4.8% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | £1.47 | +4.3% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | £1.41 | +3.7% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | £1.36 | +3.8% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £1.31 | +5.6% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.24 | +13.8% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £1.09 | +13.5% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | 96p | +9.1% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | 88p | +6.0% | |
| 1987 | 83p |
ONS series CZMT. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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