Value of a Dollar in 2000
For most of the twenty years after 2000, prices rose about 2% a year. The rise after the pandemic undid that calm in two years.
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Worth in
$1 in 2000 is worth
$1.95in August 2026
Prices rose 94.5% in between, so $1 of 2000 goods costs $1.95 in August 2026.
The price of $1 of 2000 goods, year by year
- Total inflation
- +94.5%
- Average a year
- 2.58%
- $1 of cash now buys
- $0.51 of 2000 goods
Official CPI-U data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, through August 2026. These are averages for urban consumers, not advice. Terms
How this works: Method, 6 sources,
How this works
Method
A dollar from 2000 is worth what its goods cost now: the amount × the CPI now ÷ the CPI in 2000. For 2000 the calculator uses BLS’s annual average, the mean of the twelve monthly indexes; pick a month above for a month-to-month figure, which is how BLS’s own CPI Inflation Calculator works. Full method
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Limits
Official CPI-U data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, through August 2026. These are averages for urban consumers, not advice.
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- First version: what a dollar is worth from 1913 to August 2026, your own inflation rate, whether a raise beat inflation, the current rate, the rate by year and 12 year pages.
$1 from 2000, worked out
The CPI-U averaged 172.2 in 2000 and 334.980 in August 2026. Divide the two: 334.980 ÷ 172.2 = 1.945, so $1 of 2000 goods costs $1.95 now. The same factor scales any amount: $10,000 in 2000 is $19,453 today, a total rise of 95% or 2.58% a year over 26 years.
Two calm decades, then a jump
The CPI averaged 172.2 in 2000, and from 2000 to 2020 it rose about 2.1% a year: every year’s change was between −0.4% and 3.8%.
The 2007–09 financial crisis and Great Recession interrupted it the other way. The 12-month rate reached 5.6% in July 2008, then the annual average fell 0.4% in 2009, the first yearly fall since 1949. The Fed cut its target rate to 0–0.25% by December 2008, worried about the risk of deflation.
Then the pandemic surge undid two decades of calm in two years: the CPI rose 4.7% in 2021 and 8.0% in 2022. All told, prices now are 1.95 times their 2000 level.
- From 2000 to 2020 the CPI rose about 2.1% a year. Source: BLS, CPI-U all items (CUUR0000SA0).
- In the Great Recession the Fed cut its federal funds target to 0–0.25% by December 2008, partly because of the risk of deflation. Source: Federal Reserve History, The Great Recession.
- The CPI’s annual average fell 0.4% in 2009. Source: BLS, CPI-U all items (CUUR0000SA0).
How the value of a dollar is worked out
A dollar from 2000 is worth what its goods cost now: the amount × the CPI now ÷ the CPI in 2000. For 2000 the calculator uses BLS’s annual average, the mean of the twelve monthly indexes; pick a month above for a month-to-month figure, which is how BLS’s own CPI Inflation Calculator works.
The index is the CPI-U, all items, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted: the series BLS publishes back to 1913. It measures the prices urban consumers pay, so it says what a dollar buys, not what an investment earned.
value now = amount × CPI(August 2026) ÷ CPI(2000)
$1 from 2000 in later years
What $1 of 2000 goods cost in each later year (annual averages), with that year’s inflation; the last row is the latest month.
| Year | CPI-U | $1 from 2000 | Inflation that year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 172.2 | $1 | +3.4% |
| 2002 | 179.9 | $1.04 | +1.6% |
| 2004 | 188.9 | $1.10 | +2.7% |
| 2006 | 201.6 | $1.17 | +3.2% |
| 2008 | 215.303 | $1.25 | +3.8% |
| 2010 | 218.056 | $1.27 | +1.6% |
| 2012 | 229.594 | $1.33 | +2.1% |
| 2014 | 236.736 | $1.37 | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 240.007 | $1.39 | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 251.107 | $1.46 | +2.4% |
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| 2020 | 258.811 | $1.50 | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 292.655 | $1.70 | +8.0% |
| 2024 | 313.689 | $1.82 | +2.9% |
| 2025 | 321.943 | $1.87 | +2.6% |
| August 2026 | 334.980 | $1.95 | +3.4% (12 months) |
Data: BLS, CPI-U all items (CUUR0000SA0) · BLS, CPI-U all items, seasonally adjusted (CUSR0000SA0) · BLS, Consumer Price Index data · BLS, Relative importance of CPI components, December 2025 · BLS, Average hourly earnings, total private (CES0500000003). Inflation calculator
Frequently Asked Questions
What was $1 from 2000 worth in 2020?
About $1.50.
Did prices fall in 2009?
On the annual average, yes: the CPI was 0.4% lower than in 2008. December to December it rose 2.7%, so prices were climbing again before the year was out.
What is $100,000 from 2000 worth today?
About $194,530 in August 2026 prices.