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price","$3.73"],["1962","33.6¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.48"],["1963","34.5¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.53"],["1964","33.8¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.42"],["1965","33.7¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.36"],["1966","39.1¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.78"],["1967","31.3¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$2.94"],["1968","34.0¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.07"],["1969","40.0¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.42"],["1970","39.1¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.16"],["1971","31.4¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$2.43"],["1972","30.9¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$2.32"],["1973","52.5¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.71"],["1974","53.2¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.38"],["1975","52.4¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.05"],["1976","58.3¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$3.21"],["1977","55.6¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$2.88"],["1978","52.2¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$2.51"],["1979","58.3¢","Farm-gate price (USDA), not a store price","$2.52"],["1980","$0.84","Store price (BLS); farmers were paid 56.3¢ (USDA)","$3.21"],["1981","$0.90","Store price (BLS); farmers were paid 63.1¢ (USDA)","$3.10"],["1982","$0.87","Store price (BLS)","$2.82"],["1983","$0.89","Store price (BLS)","$2.81"],["1984","$1.00","Store price (BLS)","$3.03"],["1985","$0.80","Store price (BLS)","$2.34"],["1986","$0.87","Store price (BLS)","$2.49"],["1987","$0.78","Store price (BLS)","$2.16"],["1988","$0.79","Store price (BLS)","$2.09"],["1989","$1.00","Store price (BLS)","$2.52"],["1990","$1.01","Store price (BLS)","$2.43"],["1991","$0.99","Store price (BLS)","$2.28"],["1992","$0.86","Store price (BLS)","$1.92"],["1993","$0.91","Store price (BLS)","$1.98"],["1994","$0.86","Store price (BLS)","$1.83"],["1995","$0.92","Store price (BLS)","$1.90"],["1996","$1.11","Store price (BLS)","$2.21"],["1997","$1.06","Store price (BLS)","$2.07"],["1998","$1.04","Store price (BLS)","$2.00"],["1999","$0.96","Store price (BLS)","$1.81"],["2000","$0.91","Store price (BLS)","$1.66"],["2001","$0.93","Store price (BLS)","$1.65"],["2002","$1.03","Store price (BLS)","$1.80"],["2003","$1.24","Store price (BLS)","$2.12"],["2004","$1.34","Store price (BLS)","$2.22"],["2005","$1.22","Store price (BLS)","$1.96"],["2006","$1.31","Store price (BLS)","$2.03"],["2007","$1.68","Store price (BLS)","$2.54"],["2008","$1.99","Store price (BLS)","$2.89"],["2009","$1.66","Store price (BLS)","$2.43"],["2010","$1.66","Store price (BLS)","$2.39"],["2011","$1.77","Store price (BLS)","$2.47"],["2012","$1.84","Store price (BLS)","$2.51"],["2013","$1.91","Store price (BLS)","$2.57"],["2014","$2.02","Store price (BLS)","$2.67"],["2015","$2.47","Store price (BLS)","$3.27"],["2016","$1.68","Store price (BLS)","$2.20"],["2017","$1.47","Store price (BLS)","$1.88"],["2018","$1.74","Store price (BLS)","$2.18"],["2019","$1.40","Store price (BLS)","$1.71"],["2020","$1.51","Store price (BLS)","$1.83"],["2021","$1.67","Store price (BLS)","$1.94"],["2022","$2.86","Store price (BLS)","$3.06"],["2023","$2.80","Store price (BLS)","$2.88"],["2024","$3.17","Store price (BLS)","$3.17"],["2025","$4.25","Store price (BLS), average of 11 months (no October figure published)","n/a"],["2026","$2.31","Store price (BLS), January to October average","n/a"]],"footnote":"Inflation-adjusted with the BLS all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI-U), annual averages, in 2024 dollars: 2024 is the latest year BLS published every month of, so 2025 and 2026 are shown at their published months only, not restated. Before 1980 the only per-dozen price published is what farmers were paid (USDA, Agricultural Statistics)."},{"caption":"Largest 12-month increases in the US retail egg price (BLS APU0000708111)","columns":["Month","Price/doz","12-month change"],"rows":[["January 2023","$4.82","+150.0%"],["December 2022","$4.25","+137.7%"],["February 2023","$4.21","+110.0%"],["November 2022","$3.59","+108.9%"],["March 2025","$6.23","+108.1%"],["February 2025","$5.90","+96.8%"],["January 2025","$4.95","+96.4%"],["October 2022","$3.42","+87.8%"],["September 2024","$3.82","+85.0%"],["August 2022","$3.12","+82.3%"]]},{"caption":"Before the dollar series: the BLS eggs price index by year, 1943 to 1980 (CUUR0000SEFH, 1982-84 = 100, full calendar years, annual means of the monthly index). The third column reads how far egg prices sat from their 1980 level. USDA and BLS published no average dollar price for eggs in these years.","columns":["Year","Eggs price index","vs 1980","All-items CPI"],"rows":[["1943","57.6","-35%","17.3"],["1945","58.5","-34%","18.0"],["1950","61.8","-30%","24.1"],["1955","62.8","-29%","26.8"],["1960","59.1","-33%","29.6"],["1965","54.8","-38%","31.5"],["1970","65.5","-26%","38.8"],["1975","82.4","-7%","53.8"],["1979","90.2","+2%","72.6"],["1980","88.6","the dollar series starts","82.4"]]}]}