$100 in 1925 is worth $99.43 in 1927,
because prices declined 0.6% over that period, an average of
0.29% a year.
$100 in 1925 has
the same buying power as
$99.43
in 1927
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
-0.6%
Average inflation rate
-0.29% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$99.43
Price difference ($100 base)
-$0.57
CPI in 1925
17.5
CPI in 1927
17.4
Inflation in 1925
2.34%
Inflation in 1927
-1.69%
$100 in 1925 → 1927
$99.43
$100 in 1927 → 1925
$101
What happened to prices between 1925 and 1927
Between 1925 and 1927, the Consumer Price Index went from 17.5 to 17.4.
Cumulatively, prices declined 0.6%, which works out to an average of
-0.29% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1925 bought what
$1.01 buys in 1927: the 1925 dollar
gained 0.6% in purchasing power over
these 2 years.
Consumer prices rose 2.3% in 1925, the CPI’s largest single-year increase
since the deflationary swings of the early 1920s, though still mild next to
the double-digit inflation of the World War I years. The country’s cultural
fault lines were on full display that summer in Dayton, Tennessee, where
high school teacher John Scopes was tried July 10-21 for violating a state
law against teaching evolution, a case that drew national press coverage and
pitted prosecutor William Jennings Bryan against defense attorney Clarence
Darrow. Real estate speculation, meanwhile, peaked in Florida, where buyers
flipped undeveloped land in the Miami area on thin down payments, driving
prices far above what the land itself could support; the bubble would
collapse the following year. Detroit reshuffled that June too: Walter
Chrysler reorganized the struggling Maxwell Motor Company into Chrysler
Corporation, the start of what would become one of the American auto
industry’s “Big Three.” First-class postage held at 2 cents for the sixth
straight year.
Every 1925 amount converts to 1927 at the same ratio, 0.99: $1,000 becomes
$994, and $10,000 becomes $9,943.
Amount in 1925
Value in 1927
$1.00
$0.99
$5.00
$4.97
$10.00
$9.94
$20.00
$19.89
$50.00
$49.71
$100
$99.43
$500
$497
$1,000
$994
$5,000
$4,971
$10,000
$9,943
$100,000
$99,429
$1,000,000
$994,286
Inflation by spending category, 1925–1927
Every category fell between 1925 and 1927: apparel the most, down 3.8%, and food the least, down 0.6%. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1925
spending costs in 1927, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1925 →
All items (CPI-U)
-0.29%
$99.43
Food
-0.30%
$99.39
Apparel
-1.92%
$96.20
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1925: core (all items less food & energy) (1957–), energy (1957–), housing (1967–), medical care (1935–), transportation (1935–), recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1925
$100 from 1925 had already become $101 by
1926, on its way to $99.43 in 1927; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 1.1% in 1926, and prices fell 1.7% in 1927, the deepest deflation of the period.
In 1927, prices fell 1.7% and $100 from 1925 had the buying
power of $99.43; the year's average CPI of 17.4 is the level
behind every 1927 figure on this page.
Consumer prices fell 1.7% in 1927, a mild retreat after three years of
gradual increases and part of a shallow up-and-down pattern that ran through
the second half of the decade. Aviation delivered the year’s signature
moment: Charles Lindbergh departed Roosevelt Field, New York, on May 20 and
landed at Le Bourget Field outside Paris roughly 33.5 hours later, the first
person to fly the Atlantic solo and nonstop. Detroit closed a chapter of its
own that May, when Ford halted the Model T’s production line after nearly 19
years and more than 15 million cars sold, idling tens of thousands of
workers while its factories retooled for the Model A. The Federal Reserve,
meeting with European central bankers that summer, cut its discount rate to
ease pressure on currencies still recovering from the war, a move later
cited by economists including Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz as fuel for
the stock market speculation that built through the following two years.
First-class postage held at 2 cents.
MLA: “Inflation from 1925 to 1927: $100 is worth $99.43 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1925-to-1927/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1925 to 1927. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1925-to-1927/