Retail price inflation Figure 1 shows the annual rate of inflation as at December each year from 1900 to 2007, based on a series of cost of living and retail prices indices. Figure 2 gives the percentage increase in the General Index of Retail Prices over periods of one, five, 10 and 20 years, ending in December each year from 1986 to 2007.
Figure 13 shows how the additional yield available on corporate bonds over gilts has varied since 1988, for various bond credit ratings.
Figure 3 shows an index of real earnings as at December each year from 1900 to 2007, constructed by joining together various indices of wages and earnings over the period and dividing by the price index shown in Figure 2.
Figure 19 shows the number of times that the net dividends were covered by company earnings from June 1962 to December 2007 based on the FTSE Actuaries 500 Share Index until March 1994 and the FTSE Actuaries All-Share Index thereafter.
Figure 6 shows the gross and net dividend yields on ordinary shares and compares them with long-term interest rates.
Figure 5 shows various interest rates at the end of each quarter from 1900 to 2007. The teal line shows short-term interest rates, represented successively by bank rate, minimum lending rate and bank base rates.
Figure 28 shows the Watson Wyatt index of pension increases, which is based on nearly 60 major private sector companies covering the whole spectrum of the economy.
Figure 18 shows the price of equity shares as a ratio of company earnings from June 1962 to December 2007 based on the FTSE Actuaries 500 Share Index until March 1994 and the FTSE Actuaries All-Share Index thereafter.
Figure 24 shows an index of the accumulated real return on UK property at the end of each quarter from 1973 to 2007.
The teal line in Figure 16 shows an index of real net dividends on ordinary shares from 1950 to 2007, constructed by linking together the share indices described under dividend yields in Figure 6 and dividing by the price index shown in Figure 2.
Figure 22 shows an index of the accumulated real return on overseas shares at the end of each month from 1994 to 2007. It is based on the FTSE All-World ex UK Total Return Index.
Figure 30 shows Figures 7, 9 and 20 on the same scale. Figure 31 shows Figures 7, 9, 11, 20, 24 and 26 on the same scale.
Long-term statistics is a history of key economic and investment indices. It gives details of bank rates, shares, rates of inflation, retail prices, index of real earnings, deposits, returns, dividends and pensions.
Figure 9 shows an index of the accumulated real return on long-term fixed interest stocks at the end of each quarter from 1900 to 2007.
Figure 7 shows an index of the accumulated real return on short-term fixed interest deposits at the end of each quarter from 1900 to 2007. Up to December 1972, the interest rates used are those described under interest rates in Figure 5.
Figure 11 shows an index of accumulated real return on index-linked stocks at the end of each quarter from June 1981 to December 2007.
Figure 26 shows an index of the overall accumulated real return achieved by all Combined Actuarial Performance Services (CAPS) pension funds at the end of each quarter from 1970 to 2007.
Figure 20 shows an index of the accumulated real return on UK ordinary shares at the end of each quarter from 1919 to 2007. The share indices used are those described under dividend yields in Figure 6.
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