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Inflation by year

Pick an amount and a year to see what it is worth in later prices, using official consumer price data for India and the US.

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Amount

In the year

Is worth, in the year

Uses the US's official consumer price index, 1960–2025. Switch currency to switch country.

$100 in 2000 =: $187; in 2025 prices
Prices rose: 87%; 2000 to 2025
Average inflation: 2.5%; a year, compounded
Buying power lost: 47%; by cash kept since 2000

The same basket, year by year

What $100 of shopping in 2000 cost in each later year, from the US's consumer price index. Annual averages, so a single month can differ.

Data

Every year since 1960.

Consumer price inflation for each year in India and the US, and what 100 of that year's money buys in 2025 prices.

Year	India inflation	₹100 then, in 2025	US inflation	$100 then, in 2025
2025	2.4%	₹100	2.6%	$100
2024	5.0%	₹102	2.9%	$103
2023	5.6%	₹107	4.1%	$106
2022	6.7%	₹114	8.0%	$110
2021	5.1%	₹121	4.7%	$119
2020	6.6%	₹127	1.2%	$124
2019	3.7%	₹136	1.8%	$126
2018	3.9%	₹141	2.4%	$128
2017	3.3%	₹146	2.1%	$131
2016	4.9%	₹151	1.3%	$134
2015	4.9%	₹159	0.1%	$136
2014	6.7%	₹167	1.6%	$136
2013	10.0%	₹178	1.5%	$138
2012	9.5%	₹195	2.1%	$140
2011	8.9%	₹214	3.2%	$143
2010	12.0%	₹233	1.6%	$148
2009	10.9%	₹261	-0.4%	$150
2008	8.3%	₹289	3.8%	$150
2007	6.4%	₹314	2.9%	$155
2006	5.8%	₹334	3.2%	$160
2005	4.2%	₹353	3.4%	$165
2004	3.8%	₹368	2.7%	$170
2003	3.8%	₹382	2.3%	$175
2002	4.3%	₹396	1.6%	$179
2001	3.8%	₹413	2.8%	$182
2000	4.0%	₹429	3.4%	$187
1999	4.7%	₹446	2.2%	$193
1998	13.2%	₹467	1.6%	$198
1997	7.2%	₹529	2.3%	$201
1996	9.0%	₹567	2.9%	$205
1995	10.2%	₹617	2.8%	$211
1994	10.2%	₹681	2.6%	$217
1993	6.3%	₹750	3.0%	$223
1992	11.8%	₹798	3.0%	$229
1991	13.9%	₹892	4.2%	$236
1990	9.0%	₹1,016	5.4%	$246
1989	7.1%	₹1,107	4.8%	$260
1988	9.4%	₹1,185	4.1%	$272
1987	8.8%	₹1,296	3.7%	$283
1986	8.7%	₹1,410	1.9%	$294
1985	5.6%	₹1,533	3.5%	$299
1984	8.3%	₹1,618	4.3%	$310
1983	11.9%	₹1,753	3.2%	$323
1982	7.9%	₹1,961	6.1%	$334
1981	13.1%	₹2,116	10.3%	$354
1980	11.3%	₹2,394	13.5%	$391
1979	6.3%	₹2,665	11.3%	$444
1978	2.5%	₹2,832	7.6%	$494
1977	8.3%	₹2,904	6.5%	$531
1976	-7.6%	₹3,145	5.7%	$566
1975	5.7%	₹2,905	9.1%	$598
1974	28.6%	₹3,072	11.1%	$653
1973	16.9%	₹3,950	6.2%	$725
1972	6.4%	₹4,620	3.3%	$770
1971	3.1%	₹4,917	4.3%	$795
1970	5.1%	₹5,069	5.8%	$829
1969	-0.6%	₹5,327	5.5%	$878
1968	3.2%	₹5,296	4.3%	$926
1967	13.1%	₹5,467	2.8%	$965
1966	10.8%	₹6,182	3.0%	$992
1965	9.5%	₹6,849	1.6%	$1,022
1964	13.3%	₹7,499	1.3%	$1,038
1963	2.9%	₹8,500	1.2%	$1,051
1962	3.7%	₹8,749	1.2%	$1,064
1961	1.7%	₹9,069	1.1%	$1,077
1960	–	₹9,223	–	$1,089

Method

How this works.

amount × CPI(later year) ÷ CPI(earlier year), where CPI is the consumer price index: the price of a fixed basket of everyday goods and services, measured every year.

What it assumes

India: the World Bank consumer price index for India (CC BY 4.0), which carries India's official CPI back to 1960. Today's headline CPI is published by MOSPI.
US: the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U, the index behind the headline US inflation rate.
Annual averages, not a single month, so a figure for one month of a year can differ a little.
The basket is an average household's. Your own costs, such as rent, school fees or healthcare, may have risen faster or slower.

Worked example

$100 in 1990 had the buying power of about $246 in 2025. Prices in the US rose an average of 2.6% a year in between.

₹1,000 in 2000 had the buying power of about ₹4,289 in 2025. Prices in India rose an average of 6.0% a year in between.

Learn the idea behind it

Terms used here: Inflation, Purchasing power, Real return, Nominal.

Every number here is a simplified illustration based on the inputs you choose. Returns are not guaranteed and real markets vary, sometimes a lot, year to year. This is education, not financial advice.