UK Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago.
3.5%
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Explore the full UK economy27 live indicators on one dashboard, from growth and prices to jobs, trade and public finances. Updated automatically from official sources.Inflation Rate
Jan 1989 to Sep 2026
Source: ONS series D7G7 (MM23) · all items, not seasonally adjusted (ONS does not seasonally adjust CPI).
UK Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the inflation rate fell by 0.3pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 3.8% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.7% in Sep 2024 to 11.1% in Oct 2022.
Its average since Jan 1989 is 2.8%, and the latest reading is above that.
The UK is 34th of 62 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- ONS
- Series
- D7G7
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The Bank of England's inflation target is 2%.
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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