1 How much did you keep?
$
Cash under the mattress or a 0% account — money that just sat there. Type your own amount.
2 In which country?
Everyday economies and dramatic high-inflation ones. Their currency is only a label — the maths is a pure price index.
3 Since which year?
2000
→ today
19602024
Drag to the year you set the money aside. We run its purchasing power forward to the latest data.
Country face-off
Pit two countries against each other over the same years
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Idle money is never truly still
Enter an amount, a country and a year, then hit Reveal. You’ll watch it erode from what it says on paper down to what it can actually buy today — and see how brutally that differs by country.
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Your money, then vs now
100% → 0%
On paper, you still have
0
But today it really buys
0
0%lost to inflation
Half-life of your money
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Prices multiplied by
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Average inflation
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Purchasing power over time
Each line is what your money can still buy, as a share of the day you set it aside. The steeper it falls, the faster inflation ate it.
Then vs now
0a full cart of what you could buy then
Educational — not financial advice. Figures are annual consumer-price inflation; real value is the amount deflated by cumulative CPI. Past inflation doesn’t predict the future.
Read the amount as “your money”, whatever the currency. Historical figures for information only.