Result: ¥100 in 2015 → ¥110.71 in 2024
Value of ¥100 from 2015 to 2024
Updated: September 11, 2025¥100 in 2015 is equivalent in purchasing power to about ¥110.71 today, an increase of ¥10.71 over 9 years. The yen had an average inflation rate of 1.14% per year between 2015 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 10.71%.
This means that today's prices are 1.11 times as high as average prices since 2015, according to the OECD and the World Bank consumer price index for Japan. A yen today only buys 90.326% of what it could buy back then.
The inflation rate in 2015 was 0.80%. The current inflation rate compared to the end of last year is now 2.88%. If this number holds, ¥100 today will be equivalent in buying power to ¥102.88 next year.
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| Cumulative price change | 10.71% |
| Average inflation rate | 1.14% |
| Converted amount ¥100 base | ¥110.71 |
| Price difference ¥100 base | ¥10.71 |
| CPI in 2015 | 100.000 |
| CPI in 2024 | 110.714 |
| Inflation in 2015 | 0.80% |
| Inflation in 2024 | 2.88% |
| ¥100 in 2015 | ¥110.71 in 2024 |
Buying power of ¥100 in 2015
This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for ¥100 in 2015 (price index tracking began in 1955).
For example, if you started with ¥100, you would need to end with ¥110.71 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").
When ¥100 is equivalent to ¥110.71 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 2015 dollars, the chart below shows how ¥100 is worth less over 9 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 2015 amounts in today's yen, based on the 10.71% change in prices:
| Initial value | Equivalent value |
|---|---|
| ¥1 yen in 2015 | ¥1.11 yen today |
| ¥5 yen in 2015 | ¥5.54 yen today |
| ¥10 yen in 2015 | ¥11.07 yen today |
| ¥50 yen in 2015 | ¥55.36 yen today |
| ¥100 yen in 2015 | ¥110.71 yen today |
| ¥500 yen in 2015 | ¥553.57 yen today |
| ¥1,000 yen in 2015 | ¥1,107.14 yen today |
| ¥5,000 yen in 2015 | ¥5,535.68 yen today |
| ¥10,000 yen in 2015 | ¥11,071.36 yen today |
| ¥50,000 yen in 2015 | ¥55,356.79 yen today |
| ¥100,000 yen in 2015 | ¥110,713.59 yen today |
| ¥500,000 yen in 2015 | ¥553,567.95 yen today |
| ¥1,000,000 yen in 2015 | ¥1,107,135.89 yen today |
How to calculate inflation rate for ¥100 since 2015
Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 2015 and today:
CPI today CPI in 2015
×
2015 JPY value
=
Today's value
Then plug in historical CPI values. The Japanese CPI was 100 in the year 2015 and 110.71358916166263 in 2024:
110.71358916166263100
×
¥100
=
¥110.71
¥100 in 2015 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as ¥110.71 in 2024.
To get the total inflation rate for the 9 years between 2015 and 2024, we use the following formula:
CPI in 2024 - CPI in 2015CPI in 2015
×
100
=
Cumulative inflation rate (9 years)
Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:
110.71358916166263 - 100100
×
100
=
11%
Data source & citation
You may use the following MLA citation for this page: “¥100 in 2015 → 2024 | Japan Inflation Calculator.” Official Inflation Data, Alioth Finance, 14 Dec. 2025, https://www.officialdata.org/japan/inflation/2015?amount=100.
Special thanks to QuickChart for their chart image API, which is used for chart downloads.
in2013dollars.com is a reference website maintained by the Official Data Foundation.
| Cumulative price change | 10.71% |
| Average inflation rate | 1.14% |
| Converted amount ¥100 base | ¥110.71 |
| Price difference ¥100 base | ¥10.71 |
| CPI in 2015 | 100.000 |
| CPI in 2024 | 110.714 |
| Inflation in 2015 | 0.80% |
| Inflation in 2024 | 2.88% |
| ¥100 in 2015 | ¥110.71 in 2024 |