Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) hit its highest levels since 1982 in April this year when it reached 9.0%. It rose to 9.1% in May, and hit 9.4% in June, according to the latest release by the Office of National Statistics.
What that means, essentially, is that the prices of products and services in June 2022 cost 9.4% more than they did in June 2021. The CPI is calculated by looking at the prices of a variety of items and services and seeing how their prices change over time.
Those items can be thought of as a large shopping basket of around 700 items. In June this year, those 700 items cost 9.4% more than they did in June 2021.
Different products experience different levels of inflation, however. So which products have been hardest hit?
The Read Data Unit has put together a list of some of the most notable items to have seen large rises in the CPI calculations.
There are too many items to provide a full list in the text, but a searchable table has also been included at the bottom of this article which you can use to find specific items.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages
Overall, food has gone up by 9.8% in the 12 months up to June 2022. The largest increase is in low fat milk, which has gone up by 26.3%.
Butter, meanwhile, has increased by 21.5% in the last 12 months. Flour is up 19.3%, whole milk by 18.6%, olive oil by 18.2%, and sauces, condiments, salt, spices and culinary herbs by 17.1%.
Pasta is up by 15.9%, fresh fish by 14.2%, poultry by 14.9%, frozen veg by 13.2%, eggs by 11.5%, meat by 11.1%, crisps by 10.0%, bread by 9.7%, vegetables by 9.0%, and rice by 4.4%.
Non-alcoholic beverages
Non-alcoholic beverages as a whole have increased in price by 9.1%. Mineral water has seen the largest increase at 19.5%.
Coffee is up by 13.2%, and fruit juices by 9.1%. Tea, that great British staple, has increased by 6.8%, while soft drinks are up 6.6%.
Clothing and footwear
The cost of clothing and footwear has gone up by 6.2% over the last 12 months. Children’s garments increased by 6.2%, women's by 5.4% and men's by 8.1%. Footwear was by 4.7% overall.
Children's footwear saw the largest increase at 8.0%, followed by men's at 5.1% and women's by 3.6%.
Transport
Motorists will be no strangers to the huge increases in prices experienced at fuel pumps. Diesel was up 44.2%, while petrol was up 41.8% in June.
Air travel has gone up by 22.4% over the last 12 months, according to the ONS data. The cost of rail transport, however, has increased by 5.0%.
Fuel and energy
The largest increases in the CPI data are those of fuel Overall, electricity, gas and other fields have increased 70.2% over the last 12 months.
Liquid fuel saw the largest of those at 128.9%. That’s followed by natural gas at 98.5%, and electricity at 53.5%. You can check out the full CPI list in the table below.
