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Consumer price inflation since 1210 (Bank of England)

Annual change in consumer prices in the UK from the Bank of England’s millennium dataset, reconstructed back to the 13th century.

+0.7%United Kingdom · 2016

Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1)Published by source: 2024-09-26
inflation
Saved data version: retrieved 2026-11-05, ID 9ce45a57f0c8Warehouse version at build: v45
Data coverage
  • United Kingdom: 1210–2016; observations: 807; missing years: 0

Missing years are counted between the first and last observations. A missing value is not zero.

United Kingdom

807 rows for United Kingdom

Time range:
−40.0%−20.0%0.0%+20.0%+40.0%+60.0%1250150017502000+0.7%
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United Kingdom

+2.6%→+0.7%

Total change
−1.9 pp
Period
1210–2016

United Kingdom: +2.6% (1210) → +0.7% (2016). Difference: −1.9 pp. Peak value of +49.7% in 1225; lowest value of −31.2% in 1558.

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Consumer price inflation since 1210 (Bank of England) — United Kingdom
YearCountryValue
2016United Kingdom+0.66%
2015United Kingdom+0.04%
2014United Kingdom+1.46%
2013United Kingdom+2.56%
2012United Kingdom+2.83%
2011United Kingdom+4.46%
2010United Kingdom+3.3%
2009United Kingdom+2.17%
2008United Kingdom+3.6%
2007United Kingdom+2.32%
2006United Kingdom+2.33%
2005United Kingdom+2.06%
2004United Kingdom+1.34%
2003United Kingdom+1.36%
2002United Kingdom+1.26%
2001United Kingdom+1.23%
2000United Kingdom+0.8%
1999United Kingdom+1.33%
1998United Kingdom+1.56%
1997United Kingdom+1.82%
Source
Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1)
Licence
Bank of England terms (free reuse with attribution)
Published by source
2024-09-26
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator code in source
cpi
Unit of measure
percent
Data version
v45

Cite

Longseries, “Consumer price inflation since 1210 (Bank of England)”. Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1) (cpi), 1210–2016, United Kingdom. Thomas, Ryland and Nicholas Dimsdale (2017), “A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK”, v3.1, Bank of England. Retrieved 2026-11-05. Bank of England terms (free reuse with attribution). Data version v45. Data SHA-256: 9ce45a57f0c841e6d1c52481b709f2be866c27f43dbe0c6fab9699b4f1fa97ba. https://longseries.com/en/d/boe-cpi-inflation/

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About this series

A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK, Bank of England, v3.1 (Thomas and Dimsdale, 2017), sheet “A1. Headline series”. Annual change in consumer prices, in %. Early years are reconstructions. The file is no longer updated: last published in 2017, data to 2016.

Indicator definition

Change in the price level over the year, in %. Before the 20th century the index is rebuilt mainly from food prices, so single years are noisy. For a modern comparison see CPI inflation (OECD).

How to read the data

Before about 1800 the series rests on scattered prices, so compare decades rather than single years. Long spells of falling prices, such as after the Napoleonic wars, and the high inflation of the 1970s stand out.

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