Percentage of people who see inflation an important issues in Britain 1974-2024
In Grear Britain, inflation was seen by 32 percent of people in 2024, and 40 percent of people in 2022 as being one of the most important issues facing the country, significantly higher than than in 2021 when just one percent of people thought it was an important issue. The share of people believing inflation to be an important issue correlates with the UK's RPI inflation rate, which shows that between the early 1990s and mid-2021, the inflation rate was rarely above five percent.