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The purchasing power of money in Germany over time
What was money worth in Germany? The World Bank price series runs from 1960 to 2025 and answers with numbers: €100.00 in 2000 had the same purchasing power as €160.79 in 2025. The harshest year of the period was 1973, with inflation at 7%, while the average of the last 10 recorded years sits at 2.6% a year. In the most recent data point, 2025, prices rose 2.2%.
Annual inflation over the last three decades (1996 to 2025)
| Year | Inflation (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2.1 |
| 2010 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 2.3 |
| 2006 | 1.6 |
| 2005 | 1.5 |
| 2004 | 1.7 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1.4 |
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1.4 |
| 1999 | 0.6 |
| 1998 | 0.9 |
| 1997 | 1.9 |
| 1996 | 1.4 |
What €100.00 from each decade is worth in 2025
| Decade | Annual average (%) | €100.00 back then, in 2025 money |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.4 | €559.11 |
| 1970s | 4.9 | €433.29 |
| 1980s | 2.9 | €264.10 |
| 1990s | 2.6 | €204.22 |
| 2000s | 1.6 | €160.79 |
| 2010s | 1.3 | €137.80 |
| 2020s | 3.4 | €121.93 |
What the series shows
The 1970s were the harshest stretch of the archive, averaging 4.9% a year, and the most stable year was 1986, when the change stayed at -0.1%. From 2000 to 2025 prices accumulated a rise of 60.8%: what cost €100.00 in 2000 costs €160.79 in 2025. The series records 1 year of deflation, when prices fell instead of rising.
Compare peaks, averages and harsh decades across 40 countries in the archive Inflation around the world.
Honest limits of these numbers
The yardstick is the World Bank consumer price index (FP.CPI.TOTL, base 2010 = 100), which sees the country as a single average and time in whole years. 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. For Germany, the archive spans 66 years, from 1960 to 2025; other countries enter the dataset in different years. The output currency is always the current one (EUR); since the index is a continuous chain, past currency switches do not break the math.
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 Germany equivalences are computed by this site from the ratio of the index values.
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