Diesel, ultra-low sulphur · per litre · 1949 Estimated
What this series measures changed. ONS changed what this series measures in February 2000: earlier figures price Derv, later ones ultra-low sulphur diesel. The two ran level across the switch, so the history is continuous — but a comparison spanning February 2000 is not strictly like-for-like.
3.2pin June 1949 — about £1.62 in today's money.
- Price in 19493.2p
- Same money today£1.62
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£1.56
- Change since 1949+4807%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1949. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1977) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 28 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 - Ultra low sulphur diesel, per litre (Derv prior to Feb 2000)
- Series
- CZML
- Estimated for
- June 1949
- Coverage
- January 1977 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 32.1 → 1638.4 (May 2026)
- Back-cast
- 28 years before the first record · low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0