This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 51 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.
43.3pin June 1920 — about £28.10 in today's money.
- Price in 192043.3p
- Same money today£28.10
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£19.80
- Change since 1920+4476%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1920. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1971) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 51 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 - Beef: home-killed, rump steak, per Kg
- Series
- CZPF
- Estimated for
- June 1920
- Coverage
- January 1971 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 25.3 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 51 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0
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