$100 in 1995 is worth $132 in 2006,
because prices increased 32.3% over that period, an average of
2.58% a year.
$100 in 1995 has
the same buying power as
$132
in 2006
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
32.3%
Average inflation rate
2.58% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$132
Price difference ($100 base)
$32.28
CPI in 1995
152.4
CPI in 2006
201.6
Inflation in 1995
2.83%
Inflation in 2006
3.23%
$100 in 1995 → 2006
$132
$100 in 2006 → 1995
$75.60
What happened to prices between 1995 and 2006
Between 1995 and 2006, the Consumer Price Index went from 152.4 to 201.6.
Cumulatively, prices increased 32.3%, which works out to an average of
2.58% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 1995 bought what
$0.76 buys in 2006: the 1995 dollar
lost 24.4% of its purchasing power over
these 11 years.
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.
Every 1995 amount converts to 2006 at the same ratio, 1.32: $1,000 becomes
$1,323, and $10,000 becomes $13,228.
Amount in 1995
Value in 2006
$1.00
$1.32
$5.00
$6.61
$10.00
$13.23
$20.00
$26.46
$50.00
$66.14
$100
$132
$500
$661
$1,000
$1,323
$5,000
$6,614
$10,000
$13,228
$100,000
$132,283
$1,000,000
$1,322,835
Inflation by spending category, 1995–2006
Between 1995 and 2006, energy rose the most, up 87.2%, while apparel fell 9.5%, against 32.3% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 1995
spending costs in 2006, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 1995 →
All items (CPI-U)
2.58%
$132
Energy
5.86%
$187
Medical care
3.91%
$152
Housing
2.89%
$137
Food
2.52%
$132
Transportation
2.42%
$130
Core (all items less food & energy)
2.25%
$128
Education & communication
2.17%
$127
Recreation
1.47%
$117
Apparel
-0.90%
$90.53
Decade by decade: 1995 to 2006
Prices climbed fastest in the 2000s, averaging 2.66% a year, and slowest in the 1990s (2.47% a year). Each step below chains into the full 1995–2006 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 1995, at end
1995–2000
2.47%
13.0%
$113
2000–2006
2.66%
17.1%
$132
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 1995
$100 from 1995 had already become $113 by
2000, on its way to $132 in 2006; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 3.4% in 2005, and the smallest rise was 1.6% in 1998.
In 2006, prices rose 3.2% and $100 from 1995 had the buying
power of $132; the year's average CPI of 201.6 is the level
behind every 2006 figure on this page.
Inflation was 3.2% in 2006 and gasoline averaged $2.59 a gallon, up 29 cents from 2005. The
median household earned about $48,200 and the median new home cost $246,500, a gain of about
2% after a 13% jump in 2004 and 9% in 2005. National home prices, by the S&P/Case-Shiller
index, peaked in mid-2006. Ben Bernanke replaced Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chair on
February 1, and on June 29 the Fed raised its policy rate to 5.25%, the last of 17 straight
quarter-point increases. It held there for over a year. A first-class stamp rose to 39 cents in
January, and the federal minimum wage was $5.15 for the ninth full year in a row.
MLA: “Inflation from 1995 to 2006: $100 is worth $132 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1995-to-2006/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 1995 to 2006. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/1995-to-2006/