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The purchasing power of money in Brazil over time
What was money worth in Brazil? The World Bank price series runs from 1980 to 2025 and answers with numbers: R$100.00 in 2000 had the same purchasing power as R$446.23 in 2025. The harshest year of the period was 1990, with inflation at 2,947.7%, while the average of the last 10 recorded years sits at 5.4% a year. In the most recent data point, 2025, prices rose 5%.
Annual inflation over the last three decades (1996 to 2025)
| Year | Inflation (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 9.3 |
| 2021 | 8.3 |
| 2020 | 3.2 |
| 2019 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | 8.7 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2014 | 6.3 |
| 2013 | 6.2 |
| 2012 | 5.4 |
| 2011 | 6.6 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2009 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 5.7 |
| 2007 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6.9 |
| 2004 | 6.6 |
| 2003 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 8.5 |
| 2001 | 6.8 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 1999 | 4.9 |
| 1998 | 3.2 |
| 1997 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 15.8 |
What R$100.00 from each decade is worth in 2025
| Decade | Annual average (%) | R$100.00 back then, in 2025 money |
|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 354.5 | R$65,624,755,041,936.82 |
| 1990s | 843.2 | R$26,258,907.28 |
| 2000s | 6.9 | R$446.23 |
| 2010s | 5.8 | R$234.41 |
| 2020s | 5.8 | R$135.68 |
What the series shows
The heaviest stretch of the archive is the 1990s, when the annual average hit 843.2%; the counterpoint is 1998, the year prices moved the least, at 3.2%. Between 2000 and 2025, the accumulated rise was 346.2%, meaning R$100.00 from 2000 became R$446.23. Deflation, never: in every covered year prices ended the year higher.
Want to see where this country sits on the global map? The archive Inflation around the world compares 40 series side by side.
Honest limits of these numbers
These numbers come from the World Bank national average CPI (FP.CPI.TOTL, base 2010 = 100): yearly averages for the entire country, with no regional breakdown and no month by month view. It does not replace the official local index for contracts, rents or court decisions: Brazil relies on IBGE and its IPCA, the United States on the BLS CPI-U, and every country has its own. Here the Brazil series starts in 1980 and ends in 2025, 46 years in total, and every country has its own slice of the dataset. Amounts always come out in BRL, the current currency: past currency changes and dropped zeros are already embedded in the continuity of the index.
Source: World Bank Open Data, indicators FP.CPI.TOTL and FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, CC BY-4.0 license, snapshot of 2026-07-10. The Brazil equivalences are computed by this site from the ratio of the index values.
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