$100 in 1925 is worth $191 in 1967,
because prices increased 90.9% over that period, an average of
1.55% a year.
$100 in 1925 has
the same buying power as
$191
in 1967
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
90.9%
Average inflation rate
1.55% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$191
Price difference ($100 base)
$90.86
CPI in 1925
17.5
CPI in 1967
33.4
Inflation in 1925
2.34%
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
$100 in 1925 → 1967
$191
$100 in 1967 → 1925
$52.40
What happened to prices between 1925 and 1967
Between 1925 and 1967, the Consumer Price Index went from 17.5 to 33.4.
Cumulatively, prices increased 90.9%, which works out to an average of
1.55% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1925 bought what
$0.52 buys in 1967: the 1925 dollar
lost 47.6% of its purchasing power over
these 42 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 1967 at the same ratio, 1.91: $1,000 becomes
$1,909, and $10,000 becomes $19,086.
Amount in 1925
Value in 1967
$1.00
$1.91
$5.00
$9.54
$10.00
$19.09
$20.00
$38.17
$50.00
$95.43
$100
$191
$500
$954
$1,000
$1,909
$5,000
$9,543
$10,000
$19,086
$100,000
$190,857
$1,000,000
$1,908,571
Inflation by spending category, 1925–1967
Between 1925 and 1967, food rose the most, up 106.7%, while apparel rose the least, up 93.9%, against 90.9% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1925
spending costs in 1967, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1925 →
All items (CPI-U)
1.55%
$191
Food
1.74%
$207
Apparel
1.59%
$194
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–).
Decade by decade: 1925 to 1967
Prices climbed fastest in the 1940s, averaging 5.58% a year, and fell in the 1930s (1.7% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1925–1967 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1925, at end
1925–1930
-0.93%
-4.6%
$95.43
1930–1940
-1.75%
-16.2%
$80.00
1940–1950
5.58%
72.1%
$138
1950–1960
2.08%
22.8%
$169
1960–1967
1.74%
12.8%
$191
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1925
$100 from 1925 had already become $103 by
1945, on its way to $191 in 1967; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 14.4% in 1947, and prices fell 9.9% in 1932, the deepest deflation of the period.
Long periods are sampled every 2 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 1967
In 1967, prices rose 3.1% and $100 from 1925 had the buying
power of $191; the year's average CPI of 33.4 is the level
behind every 1967 figure on this page.
Consumer prices rose 3.1% in 1967, up from 1966’s 2.9% as
Vietnam War spending kept climbing alongside expanding Great Society
programs, a combination of rising military and domestic outlays that
economists later blamed for entrenching inflation through the rest of the
decade. The minimum wage rose that February 1, to $1.40 an hour, the
first step of a phased increase Congress had set the year before. Urban
unrest reached a peak that July, when days of rioting left 26 dead in
Newark and 43 dead in Detroit, the deadliest of that summer’s roughly 160
disturbances; Johnson responded by forming the Kerner Commission to study
the causes of the unrest. The Supreme Court gained its first Black
justice that year too: the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall on August
30, and he was sworn in that October after serving as U.S. Solicitor
General and, before that, as the lead attorney in Brown v. Board of
Education. Consumer prices finished 1967 237.4% above their
1913 level. First-class postage held at 5 cents.
MLA: “Inflation from 1925 to 1967: $100 is worth $191 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1925-to-1967/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1925 to 1967. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1925-to-1967/