Money & shopping
Inflation & purchasing power
Explore future prices and the present purchasing power of an amount.
A clear answer. Here’s how.
Future equivalent price = amount × (1 + annual inflation)^years. Future purchasing power in today’s units = amount divided by that growth factor. Assumes a constant effective annual rate; this is a scenario, not a forecast of inflation.
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Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- Amount today
- 1000
- Assumed annual inflation (%)
- 3
- Years
- 10
Example result
- Future equivalent price
- 1,343.92
- Future purchasing power in today’s units
- 744.09
- Cumulative price change
- 34.3916379344%