Average price of new potatoes, loose in the UK since 1967
£1.51
6p
The ONS published an average UK price for new potatoes, loose, per kg for 37 years, from 1967 (6p) to 2024 (£1.51). The highest yearly average is £1.84 in 2013. The largest rise from one year to the next was +42.6%, in 1998. In 2024 the average was +7.1% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £1.60.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £1.51 | +7.1% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £1.41 | +6.8% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £1.32 | -1.5% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £1.34 | +0.8% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £1.33 | – | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £1.33 | -12.5% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £1.52 | -12.1% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £1.73 | +13.8% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £1.52 | -0.7% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £1.53 | -4.4% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £1.60 | -13.0% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £1.84 | +11.5% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £1.65 | +1.9% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £1.62 | +3.8% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £1.56 | +14.7% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £1.36 | +23.6% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £1.10 | +32.5% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | 83p | +3.8% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | 80p | -4.8% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | 84p | -12.5% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | 96p | +7.9% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | 89p | +2.3% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | 87p | – | 1.3% |
| 2001 | 87p | +24.3% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | 70p | -1.4% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | 71p | -7.8% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | 77p | +42.6% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | 54p | -3.6% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | 56p | -6.7% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | 60p | +13.2% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | 53p | +8.2% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | 49p | 2.5% | |
| 1971 | 9p | -30.8% | |
| 1970 | 13p | +30.0% | |
| 1969 | 10p | +25.0% | |
| 1968 | 8p | +33.3% | |
| 1967 | 6p |
ONS series CZNK. 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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