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 U.S. since 1990
Prices are 2.4 times what they were$100 in 1990 buys about as much as $240 in 2024.
Decade by decade
| From | To | Price rise |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 2000 | +31.8% |
| 2000 | 2010 | +26.6% |
| 2010 | 2020 | +18.7% |
| 2020 | 2024 | +21.2% |
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 U.S. starts in 1960. The latest year shown is the latest annual average the OECD has published.
Sources
- Source: OECD, accessed 2024 — OECD Data Explorer