Petrol, unleaded · per litre · 1956 Estimated
3.6pin June 1956 — about £1.31 in today's money.
- Price in 19563.6p
- Same money today£1.31
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£1.49
- Change since 1956+3994%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1956. 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 34 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 1956
- Coverage
- February 1990 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 45.4 → 1638.4 (May 2026)
- Back-cast
- 34 years before the first record · low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0