The Retail Price Index in the United Kingdom rose by 4.2% year-on-year in December 2025, beating market forecasts of a 4% increase and accelerating from a 3.8% advance in the previous month. On a monthly basis, the RPI grew by 0.7% in December, marking the fastest rise since April and rebounding from a 0.4% decrease in the preceding period. source: Office for National Statistics

Retail Price Index in the United Kingdom averaged 5.35 percent from 1948 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 26.90 percent in August of 1975 and a record low of -1.60 percent in June of 2009. This page provides - United Kingdom Retail Price Index YoY- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United Kingdom Retail Price Index YoY - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on February of 2026.



Calendar GMT Reference Actual Previous Consensus TEForecast
2026-01-21 07:00 AM
Retail Price Index MoM
Dec 0.7% -0.4% 0.5% 0.2%
2026-01-21 07:00 AM
Retail Price Index YoY
Dec 4.2% 3.8% 4% 3.7%
2026-02-18 07:00 AM
Retail Price Index MoM
Jan 0.7% -0.1%

Components Last Previous Unit Reference
Inflation Rate YoY 3.40 3.20 percent Dec 2025

Related Last Previous Unit Reference
Consumer Price Index CPI 140.10 139.50 points Dec 2025
Core Consumer Prices 136.70 136.30 points Dec 2025
Core Inflation Rate YoY 3.20 3.20 percent Dec 2025
Core Producer Prices 142.40 142.60 points Dec 2025
CPI Clothing and Footwear 122.00 121.80 points Dec 2025
CPI Education 152.70 152.70 points Dec 2025
CPI Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages 144.10 142.90 points Dec 2025
CPI Housing Utilities 148.40 148.30 points Dec 2025
CPI Recreation and Culture 134.80 135.00 points Dec 2025
CPI Hotels, Cafes and Restaurants 151.70 151.30 points Dec 2025
CPI Transportation 139.20 137.30 points Dec 2025
Food Inflation 4.50 4.20 percent Dec 2025
GDP Deflator 108.20 107.00 points Sep 2025
Inflation Rate MoM 0.40 -0.20 percent Dec 2025
Producer Prices 144.60 144.60 points Dec 2025
PPI Output YoY 3.40 3.40 percent Dec 2025
Retail Price Index YoY 4.20 3.80 percent Dec 2025


United Kingdom Retail Price Index YoY
In the UK, the RPI index covers only private households but excludes the top 4% of households by income and pensioner households who receive at least three-quarters of their income from benefits. The index was initially developed as a compensation index, derived from an index designed as an aid to protect ordinary workers from price increases associated with the First World War. The RPI provides estimates of inflation from 1947 onwards with the first official release of consumer price inflation being produced in January 1956. Until the introduction of the UK CPI in 1996, the RPI and its derivatives were the only measures of UK consumer price inflation available to users.
Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
4.20 3.80 26.90 -1.60 1948 - 2025 percent Monthly
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