Chocolate bars: manufacture sales volume UK 2008-2023

The sales volume of chocolate bars manufactured in the UK remained flat in 2023. Production volume collapsed between 2008 and 2011 but has since rebounded to 80 million kilograms.

A stagnating market?

The corresponding developments in sales values give the same picture as above. In 2022, sales value of UK output amounted to 481 million British pounds. The sales price per kilogram of chocolate bar has stagnated in recent years while the average purchase volume by UK consumers has grown.

Chocolate bar types

Between 2020 and 2021, the average consumer ate 55 grams per week of solid chocolate and a further 56 grams of filled chocolate. The average expenditure per person per week on chocolate bars has overall gone up in the last decade for both types of products.

Sales volume of chocolate bars* manufactured in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2023 (in 1,000 kilograms)

Characteristic	Sales volume in thousand kilograms
2023	79,980
2022	78,135
2021	79,712
2020	60,156
2019	75,236
2018	34,200
2017	30,998
2016	30,184
2015	22,164
2014	21,706
2013	24,483
2012	21,603
2011**	26,928
2010	46,703
2009	84,620
2008	106,908

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Release date

July 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2008 to 2023

Supplementary notes

Based on PRODCOM (PRODucts of the European COMmunity) survey of production. Intermediate estimate (final estimate yet to be released).
Figures have been rounded.
* Chocolate blocks, slabs or bars. Excluding filled, with added cereal, fruit/nuts and chocolate cookies.
** The source adds the following information: "Data has low response, and therefore a high level of estimation, which may impact on the quality of the estimate."

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