Potatoes, old white · per kg · 1944 Estimated
This figure may be significantly off. It is projected back 50 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.
1.5pin June 1944 — about 94.1p in today's money.
- Price in 19441.5p
- Same money today94.1p
- Estimated price today · projected from January 202597.5p
- Change since 1944+6576%
Price history
Record & method
No price was recorded for 1944. This figure is estimated: we took the earliest observed price (January 1994) and moved it back along the category inflation curve — a back-cast of 50 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 - Potatoes, old white, per kg
- Series
- VKYY
- Estimated for
- June 1944
- Coverage
- January 1994 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 25.5 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- Back-cast
- 50 years before the first record · very low confidence
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0