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Buying power of zł100 in 1971

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for zł100 in 1971 (price index tracking began in 1970).

For example, if you started with zł100, you would need to end with zł747,259.72 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When zł100 is equivalent to zł747,259.72 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Polish zloty decreases over time. In other words, a zloty will pay for fewer items at the store.

This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a zloty over time. By calculating the value in 1971 dollars, the chart below shows how zł100 is worth less over 52 years.

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

This conversion table shows various other 1971 amounts in today's zloty, based on the 747,159.72% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for zł100 since 1971

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 1971 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Polish CPI was 0.019673012749106104 in the year 1971 and 147.0085 in 2023:

zł100 in 1971 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as zł747,259.72 in 2023.

To get the total inflation rate for the 52 years between 1971 and 2023, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

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