Average price of dessert pears in the UK since 1968
£2.41
18p
The ONS published an average UK price for dessert pears, per kg for 57 years, from 1968 (18p) to 2024 (£2.41). The highest yearly average is £2.41 in 2024. The largest rise from one year to the next was +28.2%, in 1977. In 2024 the average was +7.6% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £1.99.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £2.41 | +7.6% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £2.24 | – | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £2.24 | -1.8% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £2.28 | +16.3% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £1.96 | -1.5% | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £1.99 | -5.7% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £2.11 | +2.9% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £2.05 | +2.0% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £2.01 | -1.5% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £2.04 | +2.5% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £1.99 | -17.1% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £2.40 | +25.0% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £1.92 | – | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £1.92 | +0.5% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £1.91 | – | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £1.91 | +19.4% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £1.60 | +17.6% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £1.36 | -3.5% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £1.41 | +11.0% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £1.27 | -7.3% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £1.37 | -1.4% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £1.39 | -6.7% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £1.49 | +18.3% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £1.26 | +4.1% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £1.21 | +4.3% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £1.16 | -3.3% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £1.20 | +10.1% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £1.09 | -8.4% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £1.19 | +5.3% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | £1.13 | +15.3% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | 98p | -3.9% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | £1.02 | -8.9% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £1.12 | -9.7% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.24 | +6.9% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £1.16 | +18.4% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | 98p | +16.7% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | 84p | -3.4% | |
| 1987 | 87p | +1.2% | |
| 1986 | 86p | +17.8% | |
| 1985 | 73p | +1.4% | |
| 1984 | 72p | +2.9% | |
| 1983 | 70p | -1.4% | |
| 1982 | 71p | +26.8% | |
| 1981 | 56p | – | |
| 1980 | 56p | +7.7% | |
| 1979 | 52p | -5.5% | |
| 1978 | 55p | +10.0% | |
| 1977 | 50p | +28.2% | |
| 1976 | 39p | +5.4% | |
| 1975 | 37p | +23.3% | |
| 1974 | 30p | +3.4% | |
| 1973 | 29p | +26.1% | |
| 1972 | 23p | +9.5% | |
| 1971 | 21p | +16.7% | |
| 1970 | 18p | +5.9% | |
| 1969 | 17p | -5.6% | |
| 1968 | 18p |
ONS series CZMX. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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