Inflation Record$100 in 2025 → Today (Australia)
Official data verified · CPI (ABS) · Annual average · Not seasonally adjusted · Data through September 2026 (fetched 2026-11-02) · All groups CPI, weighted average of eight capital cities (6401.0)
+3.5% cumulative inflation · 2025–2026
Your $100 in 2025 would have the purchasing power of $103.54 in Australia today.
What this means
- Purchasing power: $100 in 2025 had the same average buying power as $103.54 in 2026.
- Price level change: the overall consumer price level rose by 3.5% across this 1-year span; the purchasing power of a dollar changed by -3.4%.
- This measures the broad basket of consumer goods and services (CPI (ABS)). Individual expenses moved at different rates.
What this means in other amounts
| In 2025 | Worth in 2026 |
|---|---|
| $1 | $1.04 |
| $5 | $5.18 |
| $10 | $10.35 |
| $20 | $20.71 |
| $50 | $51.77 |
| $100 | $103.54 |
| $500 | $517.72 |
| $1,000 | $1,035.43 |
| $10,000 | $10,354.34 |
| $100,000 | $103,543.37 |
Key facts about 2025
- Consumer prices rose 2.8% in 2025 — the 48th-largest annual increase in the 1949–2026 record.
- 2025 is in the quarterly-CPI era: its annual average is the mean of the year's four quarterly indexes.
- Since 2025, the overall price level has multiplied about 1.0× — $1.00 in 2025 buys what $1.04 buys in 2026.
$100 in 2025, decade by decade
| Year | Worth | Cumulative price change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $103.54 | +3.5% |
Quarterly CPI in 2025
| Period | Index | Change vs same period, prior year |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 140.7 | 2.4% |
| Q2 | 141.7 | 2.1% |
| Q3 | 143.6 | 3.2% |
| Q4 † | 144.5 | 3.6% |
† Derived from the monthly CPI (the ABS now publishes monthly data) — see the note on the annual average below.
Annual average for 2025: 142.618 Q4 2025 is derived from the monthly CPI (the ABS now publishes monthly); the annual average covers all four quarters.
Verify this calculation
Series: All groups CPI, weighted average of eight capital cities (6401.0); base 2011-12=100; not seasonally adjusted.
Index (2025 annual average): 142.618 · Index (2026 annual average): 147.671 · Ratio: 1.0354
Formula: amount × (indexend / indexstart). Formula v1.0 — annual-average CPI, NSA (per-country basis on each methodology page). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.