What is €100 from the 1990s in the euro area worth today?
What it is worth
≈ €176
€100 in 1996 in the euro area is worth ≈ €176 today (2024).
Prices rose 76.2% since 1996.
€100 from 1996 buy today what ≈ €57 bought then.
Data: Eurostat, for amounts from 1996 to 2024.
Year by year
| Year | €100 of that year in 2024 | Prices since |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | ≈ €176 | +76.2% |
| 1997 | ≈ €173 | +73.5% |
| 1998 | ≈ €172 | +71.6% |
| 1999 | ≈ €170 | +69.7% |
Questions
What is €100 from 1996 in the euro area worth today?
€100 in 1996 in the euro area is worth ≈ €176 today (2024).
How much have prices risen in the euro area since 1996?
They rose 76.2% from 1996 to 2024, the last full year in the data.
Where do the figures come from?
Source: Eurostat. The yearly rise in consumer prices, each year's average, for amounts from 1996 to 2024.
Where the numbers come from
- In the EU and the euro area: Eurostat's harmonised index of consumer prices, all items, up to 2024.
- Everywhere else: the World Bank's consumer price inflation, up to 2025.
- Each year is the average of its twelve months. "Today" is the last full year of each place's data. The euro area is counted as it was each year.
- Each amount is in the place's currency today. Inflation changes what it buys, not the currency.
- A country starts in the first full year of its currency today, as Unicode CLDR dates it. Countries now in the euro keep their earlier years, in euros at the fixed conversion rate.
- Countries with no data, or none since 2023, are not listed: Venezuela or Cuba, for instance.
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