Prices of food products in Russia by year: complete statistics

2026-08-27 · Prices, inflation

In 2025, a kilogram of butter in Russia cost an average of 1,174.57 roubles, beef 676.12, a litre of milk 97.65, and ten eggs 93.52. Over ten years, butter prices increased almost threefold, beef prices rose 2.1 times, while egg prices increased by only 44% and have been falling for the second year in a row. Rosstat has been tracking this series since 1991, separately for each product.

Below are the average prices for key products since 2015, a ranking of the most and least expensive items, fuel and service prices, as well as an explanation of why the figures before 1998 appear erroneous.

Average prices for food products: table by year

Roubles per kilogram at the end of the year, unless otherwise specified.

The series for all 86 items, including clothing, medicines, transport and utilities, is available in the dataset.

What has risen in price the most over the past ten years

Price growth from 2015 to 2025, food products:

• Butter: +195%
• Frozen fish: +139%
• Cheeses: +133%
• Potatoes: +118%
• Beef: +115%
• Milk: +105%
• Black tea: +98%
• Rice: +84%
• Wheat bread: +81%
• Chicken: +77%
• Apples: +77%
• Flour: +70%
• Pork: +47%
• Eggs: +44%
• Sunflower oil: +41%
• Granulated sugar: +31%

The spread between the top and bottom of the list is sixfold. The entire dairy group is in the upper half: butter, cheese and milk have risen in price more than average, and this has been a consistent pattern in recent years, not a one-off spike in 2024.

Pork’s position at the bottom of the list is no accident. Pork production in Russia has grown faster than beef production over these years, so the pork price has barely moved: 271 roubles in 2015, 269 in 2020 and 398 in 2025. Livestock numbers by type are broken down in the article «Livestock numbers in Russia by year».

Eggs and potatoes: the products that can get cheaper

Most items in the table rise in price monotonically. Two rows behave differently.

Eggs, roubles per 10:

• 2019: 65.37
• 2020: 75.78
• 2021: 87.77
• 2022: 81.70
• 2023: 132.45
• 2024: 116.71
• 2025: 93.52

Potatoes, roubles per kilogram:

• 2019: 21.38
• 2020: 29.15
• 2021: 46.57
• 2022: 31.91
• 2023: 28.04
• 2024: 56.86
• 2025: 43.41

The egg price spike at the end of 2023 (up 62% year-on-year) has been unwound over two years: the price has fallen back to 93.52 roubles, almost back to its 2021 level (87.77). Potatoes doubled in price in 2024 and then lost almost a quarter in 2025.

Both products share a short production cycle and almost no imports. A shortage can push the price up within months, and the next harvest or new batch of poultry brings it back down. Products with long cycles (beef, cheese) cannot do this, which is why they never get cheaper.

Gasoline and transport

Rubles per litre at year-end:

Over ten years, both grades increased by exactly 80%, which is noticeably less than butter and roughly the same as bread. The gap between 92 and 95 remains around 5 roubles and changes very little.

Urban transport has risen in price more than fuel:

• Bus: 19.76 roubles per ride in 2015, 42.21 in 2025 (+114%)
• Tram: 19.76 and 50.23 (+154%)
• Metro: 31.04 and 66.55 (+114%)

Services rise in price faster than goods

Average prices for certain services, roubles:

Meanwhile, technical goods have barely moved: a TV set rose from 22,529 to 33,230 roubles (+48%), and a floor-standing vacuum cleaner from 6,190 to 8,989 (+45%). Everything with a high labour share is rising two to three times faster than items with a high share of imported or mass production.

Gold stands out: a wedding ring per gram increased from 2,890 to 11,292 roubles, 3.9 times. This is the fastest-rising non-food item in the basket. Next come cheap domestic medicines: analgin rose 3.8 times (from 10.75 to 40.57 roubles per 10 tablets), and corvalol 3.7 times (from 15.31 to 55.89 roubles per 25 ml).

Why prices before 1998 look strange

In the Rosstat series, a kilogram of beef in 1997 cost 15,787 rubles, and in 1998 it was 30 rubles. This is not a typesetting error.

On 1 January 1998, Russia carried out a redenomination: 1,000 old rubles were equated to one new ruble. All values before 1998 in the table are given in non-denominated rubles, and all subsequent ones in new rubles. They cannot be compared directly, and a chart for the entire series from 1991 is unreadable: the nineties look like a mountain, after which everything else lies at zero.

For a comparable picture, the series should start from 1998. If you divide the old values by 1,000, then a kilogram of beef in 1991 would have cost 1.55 kopecks in today’s money, and in 1997 it would have been 15.79 rubles. Comparing these figures with today’s is still meaningless: during the same period, wages and consumption patterns have also changed. Consumer price indices for such comparisons are broken down in the article «Inflation in Russia by year».

Questions and answers

Which products have risen in price the most in Russia?

Over the ten years from 2015 to 2025, butter rose in price the most: from 397.75 to 1,174.57 rubles per kilogram, almost threefold. Next come frozen fish (+139%), cheeses (+133%) and potatoes (+118%).

How much does a kilogram of beef cost in Russia?

In 2025, the national average was 676.12 rubles. In 2020 it was 361.04, and in 2015 it was 314.94.

Are products getting cheaper in Russia?

Sometimes and briefly. From 2023 to 2025, eggs became cheaper (from 132.45 to 93.52 rubles per dozen), sugar (from 70.94 to 68.53) and, if calculated from the 2024 peak, potatoes (from 56.86 to 43.41). Almost all other items in the basket rise in price every year.

Which is more expensive: the rise in food prices or in services?

Services. A visit to a specialist doctor and dry cleaning of a suit over ten years have increased by about 150%, a haircut by 121%, while the median food item in this basket has risen by about 80%.

Where does Rosstat get these prices from?

From weekly price registrations in retail outlets across the country. The price in the table is the Russian average at year-end, meaning it combines both Moscow shops and rural ones. For a specific region, the figure will be different.

In brief

Over the past ten years, the cost of the food basket in Russia has risen unevenly. The dairy group has increased two to threefold, grain products by about 80%, while sugar, sunflower oil and eggs have risen by less than half.

Services have outpaced goods in almost every comparison, while household appliances have lagged behind all. The only categories that have managed to decline are eggs and vegetables: their short production cycle allows them to return prices to normal within a season.

See also

• Average consumer prices for goods and services in Russia, 1991–2025
• Average consumer prices for food products, 2010–2024
• Inflation in Russia by year
• Retail trade turnover in Russia by year
• Average wages in Russia by year