$100 in 1967 is worth $995 in 2026,
because prices increased 894.7% over that period, an average of
3.97% a year.
$100 in 1967 has
the same buying power as
$995
in 2026
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
894.7%
Average inflation rate
3.97% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$995
Price difference ($100 base)
$895
CPI in 1967
33.4
CPI in 2026
332.243
Inflation in 1967
3.09%
Inflation in 2026
3.20%
$100 in 1967 → 2026
$995
$100 in 2026 → 1967
$10.05
Uses a partial-year average for the current year; updates with each CPI release.
What happened to prices between 1967 and 2026
Between 1967 and 2026, the Consumer Price Index went from 33.4 to 332.243.
Cumulatively, prices increased 894.7%, which works out to an average of
3.97% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1967 bought what
$0.10 buys in 2026: the 1967 dollar
lost 89.9% of its purchasing power over
these 59 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 2026 at the same ratio, 9.95: $1,000 becomes
$9,947, and $10,000 becomes $99,474.
Amount in 1967
Value in 2026
$1.00
$9.95
$5.00
$49.74
$10.00
$99.47
$20.00
$199
$50.00
$497
$100
$995
$500
$4,974
$1,000
$9,947
$5,000
$49,737
$10,000
$99,474
$100,000
$994,740
$1,000,000
$9,947,395
Inflation by spending category, 1967–2026
Between 1967 and 2026, medical care rose the most, up 2001.3%, while apparel rose the least, up 167.5%, against 894.7% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1967
spending costs in 2026, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1967 →
All items (CPI-U)
3.97%
$995
Medical care
5.30%
$2,101
Energy
4.49%
$1,336
Housing
4.24%
$1,161
Food
4.02%
$1,022
Core (all items less food & energy)
3.92%
$968
Transportation
3.71%
$860
Apparel
1.68%
$268
Not shown because the BLS began these indexes after 1967: recreation (1993–), education & communication (1993–).
Decade by decade: 1967 to 2026
Prices climbed fastest in the 1970s, averaging 7.82% a year, and slowest in the 2010s (1.73% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1967–2026 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
2000–2010
2.39%
26.6%
$653
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$775
2020–2026
4.25%
28.4%
$995
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1967
$100 from 1967 had already become $481 by
1997, on its way to $995 in 2026; 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 prices fell 0.4% in 2009, the deepest deflation of the period.
Long periods are sampled every 2 years; the calculator above covers any pair of years.
The destination year: 2026
In 2026, prices rose 3.2% and $100 from 1967 had the buying
power of $995; the year's average CPI of 332.243 is the level
behind every 2026 figure on this page.
Cite this page
MLA: “Inflation from 1967 to 2026: $100 is worth $995 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2026/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1967 to 2026. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1967-to-2026/