Food HICP (index) - United Kingdom - Eurostat - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: HICP indices (Eurostat)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United Kingdom, the food HICP was 98.8 (index) in December 2016, compared to 98.4 in November. This represents an increase of 0.4 percent.
Sample. There are 252 records overall in the monthly series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from January 1996 to December 2016.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the index hit a maximum of 101.9 in February 2014; it reached a trough of 58.5 in January 1996; it had an average value of 77.5.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Index |
|---|---|
| 2016-10-31 | 98.3100 |
| 2016-11-30 | 98.4100 |
| 2016-12-31 | 98.7700 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Food HICP (including alcohol and tobacco) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Economic concept | Prices |
| Data type | Price index |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | Index (2015 = 100) |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Index |
| Source | Eurostat |
| Source type | International organization |
| Data licence | Free reuse with attribution |
| Other information | Eurostat HICP first-release figures (ECOICOP 2018) |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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