$100 in 2000 is worth $125 in 2009,
because prices increased 24.6% over that period, an average of
2.47% a year.
$100 in 2000 has
the same buying power as
$125
in 2009
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
24.6%
Average inflation rate
2.47% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$125
Price difference ($100 base)
$24.59
CPI in 2000
172.2
CPI in 2009
214.537
Inflation in 2000
3.36%
Inflation in 2009
-0.36%
$100 in 2000 → 2009
$125
$100 in 2009 → 2000
$80.27
What happened to prices between 2000 and 2009
Between 2000 and 2009, the Consumer Price Index went from 172.2 to 214.537.
Cumulatively, prices increased 24.6%, which works out to an average of
2.47% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 2000 bought what
$0.80 buys in 2009: the 2000 dollar
lost 19.7% of its purchasing power over
these 9 years.
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.
Every 2000 amount converts to 2009 at the same ratio, 1.25: $1,000 becomes
$1,246, and $10,000 becomes $12,459.
Amount in 2000
Value in 2009
$1.00
$1.25
$5.00
$6.23
$10.00
$12.46
$20.00
$24.92
$50.00
$62.29
$100
$125
$500
$623
$1,000
$1,246
$5,000
$6,229
$10,000
$12,459
$100,000
$124,586
$1,000,000
$1,245,859
Inflation by spending category, 2000–2009
Between 2000 and 2009, energy rose the most, up 55.0%, while apparel fell 7.3%, against 24.6% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 2000
spending costs in 2009, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 2000 →
All items (CPI-U)
2.47%
$125
Energy
4.99%
$155
Medical care
4.14%
$144
Food
2.95%
$130
Housing
2.78%
$128
Education & communication
2.45%
$124
Core (all items less food & energy)
2.13%
$121
Transportation
1.75%
$117
Recreation
1.13%
$111
Apparel
-0.84%
$92.65
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 2000
$100 from 2000 had already become $110 by
2004, on its way to $125 in 2009; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 3.8% in 2008, and prices fell 0.4% in 2009, the deepest deflation of the period.
In 2009, prices fell 0.4% and $100 from 2000 had the buying
power of $125; the year's average CPI of 214.537 is the level
behind every 2009 figure on this page.
2009 is the rarest kind of year in the modern price data: one where the cost
of living went down. The CPI fell 0.4%, the first full-year deflation
since 1955, as the Great Recession hollowed out demand and oil unwound from
its $147 spike the summer before. Gasoline that had cost over $4 a gallon in
July 2008 averaged $2.35 in 2009, and that energy collapse dragged the
12-month inflation rate to −2.1% by July, the deepest reading since 1950.
Policymakers treated falling prices not as relief but as a warning: deflation
raises the real weight of debt precisely when households are drowning in it,
which is why the Federal Reserve pinned interest rates near zero, began buying
bonds by the hundreds of billions, and Washington passed a $787 billion
stimulus. The medicine took: prices stabilized within a year, and 2009 remains
the textbook case of why central banks fear deflation more than moderate
inflation.
MLA: “Inflation from 2000 to 2009: $100 is worth $125 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2000-to-2009/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 2000 to 2009. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2000-to-2009/