Buying power of €100 in 1991

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for €100 in 1991 (price index tracking began in 1990).

For example, if you started with €100, you would need to end with €44,548.95 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When €100 is equivalent to €44,548.95 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Lithuanian 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 1991 dollars, the chart below shows how €100 is worth less over 33 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 1991 amounts in today's euros, based on the 44,448.95% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for €100 since 1991

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 1991 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Lithuanian CPI was 0.3464583 in the year 1991 and 154.34351946719326 in 2024:

€100 in 1991 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as €44,548.95 in 2024.

To get the total inflation rate for the 33 years between 1991 and 2024, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

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