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.

Country
Year (for example, the year you were born)

Consumer prices in Canada since 1990

Prices are 2.1 times what they were

C$100 in 1990 buys about as much as C$210 in 2025.

Average rise: 2.1% a year

Decade by decade

From	To	Price rise
1990	2000	+21.7%
2000	2010	+22.1%
2010	2020	+17.6%
2020	2025	+19.9%

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 Canada starts in 1960. The latest year shown is the latest annual average the OECD has published.

Sources

Source: OECD, accessed 2025 — OECD Data Explorer