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The purchasing power of money in Mexico over time
What was money worth in Mexico? The World Bank price series runs from 1960 to 2025 and answers with numbers: MX$100.00 in 2000 had the same purchasing power as MX$302.39 in 2025. The harshest year of the period was 1987, with inflation at 131.8%, while the average of the last 10 recorded years sits at 4.8% a year. In the most recent data point, 2025, prices rose 3.8%.
Annual inflation over the last three decades (1996 to 2025)
| Year | Inflation (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3.8 |
| 2012 | 4.1 |
| 2011 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5.3 |
| 2008 | 5.1 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2006 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2004 | 4.7 |
| 2003 | 4.5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6.4 |
| 2000 | 9.5 |
| 1999 | 16.6 |
| 1998 | 15.9 |
| 1997 | 20.6 |
| 1996 | 34.4 |
What MX$100.00 from each decade is worth in 2025
| Decade | Annual average (%) | MX$100.00 back then, in 2025 money |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.7 | MX$1,483,611.98 |
| 1970s | 14.7 | MX$1,134,830.92 |
| 1980s | 69.1 | MX$245,193.14 |
| 1990s | 20.4 | MX$1,628.79 |
| 2000s | 5.2 | MX$302.39 |
| 2010s | 4 | MX$191.45 |
| 2020s | 5.2 | MX$130.82 |
What the series shows
The 1980s were the harshest stretch of the archive, averaging 69.1% a year, and the most stable year was 1963, when the change stayed at 0.6%. Between 2000 and 2025, the accumulated rise was 202.4%, meaning MX$100.00 from 2000 became MX$302.39. 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
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. 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. Coverage for Mexico runs from 1960 to 2025 (66 years); World Bank series start in different years depending on the country. Amounts always come out in MXN, 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 Mexico equivalences are computed by this site from the ratio of the index values.
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