Petrol, unleaded · per litre · 1916 Estimated
This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 74 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.
1pin June 1916 — about £1.31 in today's money.
- Price in 19161p
- Same money today£1.31
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£1.49
- Change since 1916+14179%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1916. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (February 1990) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 74 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/Unleaded petrol, per litre
- Series
- CZMK
- Estimated for
- June 1916
- Coverage
- February 1990 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 13 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 74 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0