$100 in 2009 is worth $150 in 2025,
because prices increased 50.1% over that period, an average of
2.57% a year.
$100 in 2009 has
the same buying power as
$150
in 2025
Detailed inflation statistics
Cumulative price change
50.1%
Average inflation rate
2.57% per year
Converted amount ($100 base)
$150
Price difference ($100 base)
$50.06
CPI in 2009
214.537
CPI in 2025
321.943
Inflation in 2009
-0.36%
Inflation in 2025
2.63%
$100 in 2009 → 2025
$150
$100 in 2025 → 2009
$66.64
What happened to prices between 2009 and 2025
Between 2009 and 2025, the Consumer Price Index went from 214.537 to 321.943.
Cumulatively, prices increased 50.1%, which works out to an average of
2.57% per year. Put differently, a dollar in 2009 bought what
$0.67 buys in 2025: the 2009 dollar
lost 33.4% of its purchasing power over
these 16 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 2025 at the same ratio, 1.50: $1,000 becomes
$1,501, and $10,000 becomes $15,006.
Amount in 2009
Value in 2025
$1.00
$1.50
$5.00
$7.50
$10.00
$15.01
$20.00
$30.01
$50.00
$75.03
$100
$150
$500
$750
$1,000
$1,501
$5,000
$7,503
$10,000
$15,006
$100,000
$150,064
$1,000,000
$1,500,641
Inflation by spending category, 2009–2025
Between 2009 and 2025, housing rose the most, up 59.7%, while apparel rose the least, up 9.4%, against 50.1% for all items. The headline number is an average; here is what $100 of 2009
spending costs in 2025, by category:
Category
Avg. yearly inflation
$100 in 2009 →
All items (CPI-U)
2.57%
$150
Housing
2.97%
$160
Food
2.81%
$156
Medical care
2.75%
$154
Transportation
2.64%
$152
Core (all items less food & energy)
2.55%
$150
Energy
2.33%
$145
Recreation
1.33%
$123
Education & communication
0.89%
$115
Apparel
0.56%
$109
Decade by decade: 2009 to 2025
Prices climbed fastest in the 2020s, averaging 4.46% a year, and slowest in the 2000s (1.64% a year). Each step below chains into the full 2009–2025 change:
Years
Avg. yearly inflation
Price change
$100 from 2009, at end
2009–2010
1.64%
1.6%
$102
2010–2020
1.73%
18.7%
$121
2020–2025
4.46%
24.4%
$150
Year by year: CPI and the value of $100 from 2009
$100 from 2009 had already become $114 by
2017, on its way to $150 in 2025; each row shows the CPI, that
year's inflation rate, and the running value.
Within the span, inflation peaked at 8.0% in 2022, and the smallest rise was 0.1% in 2015.
In 2025, prices rose 2.6% and $100 from 2009 had the buying
power of $150; the year's average CPI of 321.943 is the level
behind every 2025 figure on this page.
2025 was a year of trade policy and data disruptions rather than an
inflation surge. Consumer prices rose 2.6% on average, a step down from
2024’s 2.9% and well below the 8.0% of 2022. Tariffs announced in April
pushed up prices for some imported goods, including furniture, apparel, and
auto parts, but the effect on the overall index was smaller than many
forecasters feared at the start of the year, in part because retailers
absorbed some of the cost and demand for services stayed steady.
The Federal Reserve held its policy rate steady through the first half of the
year, then began cutting again in September, lowering it in three quarter-point
steps to 3.50–3.75% by December.
The federal government shutdown that began October 1 lasted 43 days, and the
Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish a CPI for October 2025 because the
survey data could not be collected. The federal minimum wage stayed at $7.25,
and a first-class stamp rose to 78 cents in July.
MLA: “Inflation from 2009 to 2025: $100 is worth $150 today.” InflationCalculator.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data, https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2009-to-2025/
APA: InflationCalculator.com. Inflation from 2009 to 2025. Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U data. Retrieved from https://inflationcalculator.com/inflation/2009-to-2025/