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The purchasing power of money in India over time
What was money worth in India? The World Bank price series runs from 1960 to 2025 and answers with numbers: ₹100.00 in 2000 had the same purchasing power as ₹428.91 in 2025. The harshest year of the period was 1974, with inflation at 28.6%, while the average of the last 10 recorded years sits at 4.7% a year. In the most recent data point, 2025, prices rose 2.4%.
Annual inflation over the last three decades (1996 to 2025)
| Year | Inflation (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6.6 |
| 2019 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 4.9 |
| 2014 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2012 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 8.9 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2009 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 6.4 |
| 2006 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 4.3 |
| 2001 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 1999 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 13.2 |
| 1997 | 7.2 |
| 1996 | 9 |
What ₹100.00 from each decade is worth in 2025
| Decade | Annual average (%) | ₹100.00 back then, in 2025 money |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5.9 | ₹9,221.14 |
| 1970s | 7.5 | ₹5,068.69 |
| 1980s | 9.2 | ₹2,393.48 |
| 1990s | 9.5 | ₹1,015.57 |
| 2000s | 5.5 | ₹428.91 |
| 2010s | 6.8 | ₹233.06 |
| 2020s | 5.2 | ₹127.36 |
What the series shows
The 1990s were the harshest stretch of the archive, averaging 9.5% a year, and the most stable year was 1969, when the change stayed at -0.6%. From 2000 to 2025 prices accumulated a rise of 328.9%: what cost ₹100.00 in 2000 costs ₹428.91 in 2025. The series records 2 years 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. For contracts, rents and legally binding adjustments, what counts is each country's official index (IBGE's IPCA in Brazil, the BLS CPI-U in the United States), not this series. For India, the archive spans 66 years, from 1960 to 2025; other countries enter the dataset in different years. Amounts always come out in INR, 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 India equivalences are computed by this site from the ratio of the index values.
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