$100 in 2009 is worth $110 in 2014,
because prices increased 10.3% over that period, an average of
1.99% a year.
$100 in 2009 has
the same buying power as
$110
in 2014
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
10.3%
Average inflation rate
1.99% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$110
Price difference ($100 base)
$10.35
CPI in 2009
214.537
CPI in 2014
236.736
Inflation in 2009
-0.36%
Inflation in 2014
1.62%
$100 in 2009 → 2014
$110
$100 in 2014 → 2009
$90.62
What happened to prices between 2009 and 2014
Between 2009 and 2014, the Consumer Price Index went from 214.537 to 236.736.
Cumulatively, prices increased 10.3%, which works out to an average of
1.99% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 2009 bought what
$0.91 buys in 2014: the 2009 dollar
lost 9.4% of its purchasing power over
these 5 years.
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.
Every 2009 amount converts to 2014 at the same ratio, 1.10: $1,000 becomes
$1,103, and $10,000 becomes $11,035.
Amount in 2009
Value in 2014
$1.00
$1.10
$5.00
$5.52
$10.00
$11.03
$20.00
$22.07
$50.00
$55.17
$100
$110
$500
$552
$1,000
$1,103
$5,000
$5,517
$10,000
$11,035
$100,000
$110,347
$1,000,000
$1,103,474
Inflation by spending category, 2009–2014
Between 2009 and 2014, energy rose the most, up 26.1%, while recreation rose the least, up 1.1%, against 10.3% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 2009
spending costs in 2014, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 2009 →
All items (CPI-U)
1.99%
$110
Energy
4.75%
$126
Transportation
3.79%
$120
Medical care
2.99%
$116
Food
2.18%
$111
Core (all items less food & energy)
1.65%
$109
Education & communication
1.54%
$108
Housing
1.45%
$107
Apparel
1.21%
$106
Recreation
0.22%
$101
Decade by decade: 2009 to 2014
Prices climbed fastest in the 2010s, averaging 2.08% a year, and slowest in the 2000s (1.64% a year). Each step below chains into the full 2009–2014 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 2009, at end
2009–2010
1.64%
1.6%
$102
2010–2014
2.08%
8.6%
$110
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 2009
$100 from 2009 had already become $105 by
2011, on its way to $110 in 2014; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 3.2% in 2011, and the smallest rise was 1.5% in 2013.
In 2014, prices rose 1.6% and $100 from 2009 had the buying
power of $110; the year's average CPI of 236.736 is the level
behind every 2014 figure on this page.
2014 ended with the sharpest oil price drop in years. Consumer prices rose
1.6% for the year, close to 2013’s pace, but the annual figure hid a shift at
the pump: crude oil fell from above $100 a barrel in June to below $60 in
December, and gasoline finished the year near $2.25 a gallon after averaging
$3.37 across 2014. The drop reflected record U.S. shale output, softer
global demand, and OPEC’s decision in November to keep producing.
For households, cheaper fuel arrived just as the labor market strengthened.
Median household income was $53,657, essentially flat on the prior year, and
the median new home sold for about $288,500. The federal minimum wage stayed
at $7.25 for a fifth year, and a first-class stamp rose to 49 cents.
The Federal Reserve ended its bond purchases in October but left its policy
rate at zero. A stronger dollar helped hold down import prices. Because
energy weighs heavily in the CPI, the late-year slide carried into 2015, which
posted the smallest annual increase of the decade.
MLA: “Inflation from 2009 to 2014: $100 is worth $110 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2009-to-2014/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 2009 to 2014. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2009-to-2014/