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The purchasing power of money in France over time
The same amount buys very different things in France depending on the year. The World Bank series, spanning 1960 to 2025, shows €100.00 from 2000 matching €151.32 in 2025. The inflation peak of the archive is 13.6% in 1974; over the last ten recorded years the average was 1.9% a year, with 0.9% in 2025.
Annual inflation over the last three decades (1996 to 2025)
| Year | Inflation (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2023 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0.2 |
| 2015 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2.1 |
| 2010 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 1.7 |
| 2005 | 1.7 |
| 2004 | 2.1 |
| 2003 | 2.1 |
| 2002 | 1.9 |
| 2001 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 1.7 |
| 1999 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 0.7 |
| 1997 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 2 |
What €100.00 from each decade is worth in 2025
| Decade | Annual average (%) | €100.00 back then, in 2025 money |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3.9 | €1,223.94 |
| 1970s | 8.8 | €828.08 |
| 1980s | 7.4 | €329.83 |
| 1990s | 1.9 | €179.38 |
| 2000s | 1.7 | €151.32 |
| 2010s | 1.1 | €127.70 |
| 2020s | 2.5 | €115.49 |
What the series shows
Anyone who lived through the 1970s crossed the toughest stretch of the series, 8.8% a year on average; 2015, meanwhile, barely moved prices at 0%. Between 2000 and 2025, the accumulated rise was 51.3%, meaning €100.00 from 2000 became €151.32. There is not a single deflation year in the whole series: prices always went up.
Compare peaks, averages and harsh decades across 40 countries in the archive Inflation around the world.
Honest limits of these numbers
The index here is the World Bank national average annual CPI (FP.CPI.TOTL, base 2010 = 100), a whole-country average over whole years, blind to regional differences and specific months. No legally binding adjustment should come out of this page: the reference is always the official local index, such as Brazil's IPCA or the American CPI-U. Here the France series starts in 1960 and ends in 2025, 66 years in total, and every country has its own slice of the dataset. Amounts always come out in EUR, 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 France equivalences are computed by this site from the ratio of the index values.
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