Buying power of €100 in 1989

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for €100 in 1989 (price index tracking began in 1955).

For example, if you started with €100, you would need to end with €218.41 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When €100 is equivalent to €218.41 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Belgian euro decreases over time. In other words, a euro will pay for fewer items at the store.

This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a euro over time. By calculating the value in 1989 dollars, the chart below shows how €100 is worth less over 35 years.

According to the OECD and the World Bank, each of these EUR amounts below is equal in terms of what it could buy at the time:

This conversion table shows various other 1989 amounts in today's euro, based on the 118.41% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for €100 since 1989

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 1989 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Belgian CPI was 59.12534 in the year 1989 and 129.13741113530358 in 2024:

€100 in 1989 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as €218.41 in 2024.

To get the total inflation rate for the 35 years between 1989 and 2024, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

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