Average price of tomatoes in the UK since 1968
£3.06
28p
The ONS published an average UK price for tomatoes, per kg for 57 years, from 1968 (28p) to 2024 (£3.06). The highest yearly average is £3.13 in 2023. The largest rise from one year to the next was +21.0%, in 2000. In 2024 the average was -2.2% on 2023; all-items CPI inflation that year was 2.5%. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the average was £2.04.
Average price by year
| Year | Average price (per kg) | Change on previous year | CPI inflation that calendar year (ONS, D7G7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £3.06 | -2.2% | 2.5% |
| 2023 | £3.13 | +13.4% | 7.3% |
| 2022 | £2.76 | +19.0% | 9.1% |
| 2021 | £2.32 | +8.4% | 2.6% |
| 2020 | £2.14 | – | 0.9% |
| 2019 | £2.14 | -1.8% | 1.8% |
| 2018 | £2.18 | +1.4% | 2.5% |
| 2017 | £2.15 | +5.4% | 2.7% |
| 2016 | £2.04 | +0.5% | 0.7% |
| 2015 | £2.03 | -0.5% | 0.0% |
| 2014 | £2.04 | -2.9% | 1.5% |
| 2013 | £2.10 | +1.9% | 2.6% |
| 2012 | £2.06 | +4.0% | 2.8% |
| 2011 | £1.98 | +0.5% | 4.5% |
| 2010 | £1.97 | +8.2% | 3.3% |
| 2009 | £1.82 | +6.4% | 2.2% |
| 2008 | £1.71 | +14.0% | 3.6% |
| 2007 | £1.50 | +13.6% | 2.3% |
| 2006 | £1.32 | -7.0% | 2.3% |
| 2005 | £1.42 | +10.1% | 2.1% |
| 2004 | £1.29 | -13.4% | 1.3% |
| 2003 | £1.49 | +6.4% | 1.4% |
| 2002 | £1.40 | +12.0% | 1.3% |
| 2001 | £1.25 | -16.7% | 1.2% |
| 2000 | £1.50 | +21.0% | 0.8% |
| 1999 | £1.24 | +0.8% | 1.3% |
| 1998 | £1.23 | +5.1% | 1.6% |
| 1997 | £1.17 | -9.3% | 1.8% |
| 1996 | £1.29 | +13.2% | 2.4% |
| 1995 | £1.14 | -8.8% | 2.6% |
| 1994 | £1.25 | +6.8% | 2.0% |
| 1993 | £1.17 | -7.1% | 2.5% |
| 1992 | £1.26 | -14.9% | 4.2% |
| 1991 | £1.48 | +2.8% | 7.5% |
| 1990 | £1.44 | +15.2% | 7.0% |
| 1989 | £1.25 | -1.6% | 5.2% |
| 1988 | £1.27 | -3.1% | |
| 1987 | £1.31 | +17.0% | |
| 1986 | £1.12 | +4.7% | |
| 1985 | £1.07 | -0.9% | |
| 1984 | £1.08 | +6.9% | |
| 1983 | £1.01 | +7.4% | |
| 1982 | 94p | -4.1% | |
| 1981 | 98p | -1.0% | |
| 1980 | 99p | +16.5% | |
| 1979 | 85p | +2.4% | |
| 1978 | 83p | +7.8% | |
| 1977 | 77p | +16.7% | |
| 1976 | 66p | +6.5% | |
| 1975 | 62p | +19.2% | |
| 1974 | 52p | +10.6% | |
| 1973 | 47p | +20.5% | |
| 1972 | 39p | +11.4% | |
| 1971 | 35p | +12.9% | |
| 1970 | 31p | -3.1% | |
| 1969 | 32p | +14.3% | |
| 1968 | 28p |
ONS series CZNJ. About average prices · CSV
Related pages
Sources and receipts
- Consumer price inflation time series (MM23), Office for National Statistics.
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