$100 in 1967 is worth $456 in 1995,
because prices increased 356.3% over that period, an average of
5.57% a year.
$100 in 1967 has
the same buying power as
$456
in 1995
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
356.3%
Average inflation rate
5.57% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$456
Price difference ($100 base)
$356
CPI in 1967
33.4
CPI in 1995
152.4
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
Inflation in 1995
2.83%
$100 in 1967 → 1995
$456
$100 in 1995 → 1967
$21.92
What happened to prices between 1967 and 1995
Between 1967 and 1995, the Consumer Price Index went from 33.4 to 152.4.
Cumulatively, prices increased 356.3%, which works out to an average of
5.57% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1967 bought what
$0.22 buys in 1995: the 1967 dollar
lost 78.1% of its purchasing power over
these 28 years.
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.
Every 1967 amount converts to 1995 at the same ratio, 4.56: $1,000 becomes
$4,563, and $10,000 becomes $45,629.
Amount in 1967
Value in 1995
$1.00
$4.56
$5.00
$22.81
$10.00
$45.63
$20.00
$91.26
$50.00
$228
$100
$456
$500
$2,281
$1,000
$4,563
$5,000
$22,814
$10,000
$45,629
$100,000
$456,287
$1,000,000
$4,562,874
Inflation by spending category, 1967–1995
Between 1967 and 1995, medical care rose the most, up 681.9%, while apparel rose the least, up 158.8%, against 356.3% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1967
spending costs in 1995, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1967 →
All items (CPI-U)
5.57%
$456
Medical care
7.62%
$782
Housing
5.78%
$482
Core (all items less food & energy)
5.64%
$465
Energy
5.45%
$442
Food
5.39%
$435
Transportation
5.24%
$418
Apparel
3.45%
$259
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1967: recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1967 to 1995
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and slowest in the 1990s (3.12% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1967–1995 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1967, at end
1967–1970
5.12%
16.2%
$116
1970–1980
7.82%
112.4%
$247
1980–1990
4.72%
58.6%
$391
1990–1995
3.12%
16.6%
$456
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1967
$100 from 1967 had already become $272 by
1981, on its way to $456 in 1995; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 13.5% in 1980, and the smallest rise was 1.9% in 1986.
In 1995, prices rose 2.8% and $100 from 1967 had the buying
power of $456; the year's average CPI of 152.4 is the level
behind every 1995 figure on this page.
In 1995, gas averaged $1.15 a gallon, a new home cost roughly $133,900, and the median household
earned about $34,100. Inflation ran at 2.8% for the year, little changed from 1994, as the
Federal Reserve shifted from raising rates to cutting them. Having lifted its policy rate six
times the year before, the Fed judged by July that the economy had cooled enough on its own, and
trimmed rates instead, an outcome economists would later point to as a rare soft landing. The
year opened with a currency crisis: Mexico’s peso lost roughly half its value against the dollar
in a matter of weeks, and the U.S. Treasury and the IMF assembled a $50 billion rescue package,
controversial in Congress, to stabilize it and keep the crisis from spreading to other emerging
markets. Closer to home, a budget standoff between President Clinton and the Republican Congress
shut down federal agencies twice, first for five days in November and then for 21 days spanning
December into January 1996, the longest shutdown up to that point. The Postal Service raised the
cost of a first-class stamp to 32 cents in January. Low, steady inflation was about the only calm
part of 1995’s economic story.
MLA: “Inflation from 1967 to 1995: $100 is worth $456 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-1995/
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