Buying power of ¥100 in 1974

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for ¥100 in 1974 (price index tracking began in 1955).

For example, if you started with ¥100, you would need to end with ¥228.90 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When ¥100 is equivalent to ¥228.90 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Japanese yen decreases over time. In other words, a yen will pay for fewer items at the store.

This effect explains how inflation erodes the value of a yen over time. By calculating the value in 1974 dollars, the chart below shows how ¥100 is worth less over 50 years.

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

This conversion table shows various other 1974 amounts in today's yen, based on the 128.90% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for ¥100 since 1974

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 1974 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Japanese CPI was 48.36684 in the year 1974 and 110.71358916166263 in 2024:

¥100 in 1974 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as ¥228.90 in 2024.

To get the total inflation rate for the 50 years between 1974 and 2024, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

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