$100 in 1967 is worth $516 in 2000,
because prices increased 415.6% over that period, an average of
5.10% a year.
$100 in 1967 has
the same buying power as
$516
in 2000
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
415.6%
Average inflation rate
5.10% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$516
Price difference ($100 base)
$416
CPI in 1967
33.4
CPI in 2000
172.2
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
Inflation in 2000
3.36%
$100 in 1967 → 2000
$516
$100 in 2000 → 1967
$19.40
What happened to prices between 1967 and 2000
Between 1967 and 2000, the Consumer Price Index went from 33.4 to 172.2.
Cumulatively, prices increased 415.6%, which works out to an average of
5.10% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1967 bought what
$0.19 buys in 2000: the 1967 dollar
lost 80.6% of its purchasing power over
these 33 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 2000 at the same ratio, 5.16: $1,000 becomes
$5,156, and $10,000 becomes $51,557.
Amount in 1967
Value in 2000
$1.00
$5.16
$5.00
$25.78
$10.00
$51.56
$20.00
$103
$50.00
$258
$100
$516
$500
$2,578
$1,000
$5,156
$5,000
$25,778
$10,000
$51,557
$100,000
$515,569
$1,000,000
$5,155,689
Inflation by spending category, 1967–2000
Between 1967 and 2000, medical care rose the most, up 824.8%, while apparel rose the least, up 154.1%, against 415.6% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1967
spending costs in 2000, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1967 →
All items (CPI-U)
5.10%
$516
Medical care
6.97%
$925
Housing
5.31%
$551
Energy
5.14%
$524
Core (all items less food & energy)
5.14%
$522
Food
4.95%
$492
Transportation
4.74%
$460
Apparel
2.87%
$254
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1967: recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1967 to 2000
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and slowest in the 1990s (2.80% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1967–2000 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
1990–2000
2.80%
31.8%
$516
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1967
$100 from 1967 had already become $298 by
1983, on its way to $516 in 2000; 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 1.6% in 1998.
Long periods are sampled every 2 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 2000
In 2000, prices rose 3.4% and $100 from 1967 had the buying
power of $516; the year's average CPI of 172.2 is the level
behind every 2000 figure on this page.
Inflation ran at 3.4% in 2000, the highest annual rate since 1991, as an economy growing
above 4% and a rise in oil prices pushed the CPI up. The median household earned about
$42,100, gas averaged $1.51 a gallon, and a new home cost roughly $169,000. The Federal
Reserve had raised interest rates six times since mid-1999 and stopped at 6.5% in May. By
then the stock market had already turned: the Nasdaq hit its record of 5,048 on March 10 and
lost about 39% of its value by December. Consumer prices did not reflect the slowdown yet,
which is why the Fed held rates high through the year even as technology companies began to
fail. In October, Congress granted China permanent normal trade relations, a decision that
would help hold down the price of manufactured goods for years. A first-class stamp cost 33
cents and the federal minimum wage was $5.15. The recession of 2001 brought inflation back
down.
MLA: “Inflation from 1967 to 2000: $100 is worth $516 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2000/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1967 to 2000. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2000/