What is US$100 from the 1970s in the United States worth today?
What it is worth
≈ US$808
US$100 in 1970 in the United States is worth ≈ US$808 today (2024).
Prices rose 707.9% since 1970.
US$100 from 1970 buy today what ≈ US$12 bought then.
Data: World Bank, for amounts from 1959 to 2024.
Year by year
| Year | US$100 of that year in 2024 | Prices since |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ≈ US$808 | +707.9% |
| 1971 | ≈ US$775 | +674.6% |
| 1972 | ≈ US$750 | +650.1% |
| 1973 | ≈ US$706 | +606.4% |
| 1974 | ≈ US$636 | +536.1% |
| 1975 | ≈ US$583 | +482.9% |
| 1976 | ≈ US$551 | +451.2% |
| 1977 | ≈ US$518 | +417.5% |
| 1978 | ≈ US$481 | +380.8% |
| 1979 | ≈ US$432 | +332.2% |
Questions
What is US$100 from 1970 in the United States worth today?
US$100 in 1970 in the United States is worth ≈ US$808 today (2024).
How much have prices risen in the United States since 1970?
They rose 707.9% from 1970 to 2024, the last full year in the data.
Where do the figures come from?
Source: World Bank. The yearly rise in consumer prices, each year's average, for amounts from 1959 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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