Historic Inflation over a period of years? 22 January at 2:40PM in Savings & investments 8 replies 516 views

RomfordNavy

Anyone know if there is a website which will tell me the average annual inflation of say the past three, four or five years?

eskbanker

All the data supporting the various indices (CPI, CPIH, RPI, etc) are published on the ONS site, so you can import the raw data sets into Excel (other spreadsheets are available) and play with them to your heart's content....

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/consumerpriceinflation

RG2015

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices

Richard1212

https://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/uk-historical-inflation-rate/

dales1

eskbanker is your friend

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MX5huggy

If you’re looking for something less serious than monthly stats on a spread sheet the BoE inflation calculator is fun (is that the right term) going back to 1209 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

sevenhills

RomfordNavy said:

Anyone know if there is a website which will tell me the average annual inflation of say the past three, four or five years?

Are you looking for the Governments favoured measure of inflation (CPIH), it has recently changed from CPI. CPI is likely to be lower than your real inflation. When the BBC did a link that allowed people to measure their personal inflation rate, RPI was much more realistic for me.

RomfordNavy

sevenhills said:

RomfordNavy said:

Anyone know if there is a website which will tell me the average annual inflation of say the past three, four or five years?

Are you looking for the Governments favoured measure of inflation (CPIH), it has recently changed from CPI. CPI is likely to be lower than your real inflation. When the BBC did a link that allowed people to measure their personal inflation rate, RPI was much more realistic for me.

Yes I suspect RPI might be the moost realistic measure.  What I am trying to find is an Average Annual figure for say a period of the last four years.

RomfordNavy

MX5huggy said:

If you’re looking for something less serious than monthly stats on a spread sheet the BoE inflation calculator is fun (is that the right term) going back to 1209 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

Missed it when I first looked at that but having checked again it does exactly what I want.  Enter the period as the last four years, click 'Show Amount' and underneath it displays: 'Inflation averaged nn% a year.'

Perfect, thanks