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Buying power of ¥100 in 1988

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for ¥100 in 1988 (price index tracking began in 1955).

For example, if you started with ¥100, you would need to end with ¥127.09 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When ¥100 is equivalent to ¥127.09 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Japanese yen decreases over time. In other words, a yen will pay for fewer items at the store.

This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a yen over time. By calculating the value in 1988 dollars, the chart below shows how ¥100 is worth less over 36 years.

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

This conversion table shows various other 1988 amounts in today's yen, based on the 27.09% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for ¥100 since 1988

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 1988 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Japanese CPI was 86.53601 in the year 1988 and 109.98171951063019 in 2024:

¥100 in 1988 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as ¥127.09 in 2024.

To get the total inflation rate for the 36 years between 1988 and 2024, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

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