€100 in 2011 is worth €133.34 today

Buying power of €100 in 2011

This chart shows a calculation of buying power equivalence for €100 in 2011 (price index tracking began in 1996).

For example, if you started with €100, you would need to end with €133.34 in order to "adjust" for inflation (sometimes refered to as "beating inflation").

When €100 is equivalent to €133.34 over time, that means that the "real value" of a single Euro 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 2011 dollars, the chart below shows how €100 is worth less over 13 years.

According to the European Central 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 2011 amounts in today's euros, based on the 33.34% change in prices:

How to calculate inflation rate for €100 since 2011

Our calculations use the following inflation rate formula to calculate the change in value between 2011 and today:

Then plug in historical CPI values. The Euro CPI was 95.82083333 in the year 2011 and 127.77 in 2024:

€100 in 2011 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as €133.34 in 2024.

To get the total inflation rate for the 13 years between 2011 and 2024, we use the following formula:

Plugging in the values to this equation, we get:

Data source & citation

Raw data for these calculations comes from the European Commission and the European Central Bank's Harmonized Index of Consumer prices (HICP), which is computed based on the reported consumer price indices in member countries of the European Union.

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