How much have prices risen since you were born?
Pick a country and a year to see how many times consumer prices have multiplied since then, what an amount of money then is worth today, and how prices rose decade by decade. From OECD consumer price indexes.
Consumer prices in Australia since 1990
Prices are 2.48 times what they wereA$100 in 1990 buys about as much as A$248 in 2025.
Decade by decade
| From | To | Price rise |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 2000 | +24.4% |
| 2000 | 2010 | +34.5% |
| 2010 | 2020 | +20.8% |
| 2020 | 2025 | +22.9% |
How this is calculated
- Uses the OECD annual average consumer price index for each country. Times = index in the latest year ÷ index in the chosen year. Average rise = compound annual rate between the two years.
- This shows how the general price level changed. It does not show how any person’s income, spending or standard of living changed.
- Data for Australia starts in 1960. The latest year shown is the latest annual average the OECD has published.
Sources
- Source: OECD, accessed 2025 — OECD Data Explorer