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Buying power of $100 in 2016

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for $100 in 2016 (price index tracking began in 1957).

For example, if you started with $100, you would need to end with $152.65 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When $100 is equivalent to $152.65 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Indian rupee decreases over time. In other words, a rupee will pay for fewer items at the store.

This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a rupee over time. By calculating the value in 2016 dollars, the chart below shows how $100 is worth less over 8 years.

According to the OECD and the World Bank, each of these INR amounts below is equal in terms of what it could buy at the time:

This conversion table shows various other 2016 amounts in today's rupees, based on the 52.65% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for $100 since 2016

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 2016 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Indian CPI was 104.941 in the year 2016 and 160.1940998279254 in 2024:

$100 in 2016 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as $152.65 in 2024.

To get the total inflation rate for the 8 years between 2016 and 2024, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

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