Bananas · per kg · 1923 Estimated
This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 44 years from the first recorded price, using general inflation. Items do not track inflation evenly — groceries in particular were far more expensive relative to other goods before modern agriculture, so a figure this old can understate the real price by two-fold or more. Use it for a sense of scale, not as a historical price.
4.8pin June 1923 — about £4.25 in today's money.
- Price in 19234.8p
- Same money today£4.25
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£1.07
- Change since 1923+2109%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1923. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1967) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 44 years. The further back it reaches, the less it should be trusted. Treat it as an approximation, not a historical fact.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics (ONS), dataset MM23. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Series title
- RPI: Ave price - Bananas, per Kg
- Series
- CZMV
- Estimated for
- June 1923
- Coverage
- January 1967 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 18.7 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 44 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0