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Inflation calculator for Singapore: what money from a past year is worth today
What any sum from a year since 1961 is worth in another year’s money, by SingStat’s consumer price index: for all items, or for one kind of spending such as food, health or education, with the sum shown.
What is your money from a past year worth?
Pick a common question, or put in any amount and two years since 1961. You get what it is worth in the other year’s money, how much prices rose, and the sum. Open “Use the prices of one kind of spending” to use SingStat’s index for food, health, education or another division instead of all items.
$100 from each year, in today’s money
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In Sep 2026 money, by SingStat’s CPI for each: all items and five of its ten divisions. Tap a figure to load it into the calculator.
What rose most: by kind of spending
Since 2016, transport rose the most of SingStat’s ten divisions, 54.4%, and information and communication fell the most, 7.2%. All items: 22.4%.
| Prices of | Since 2016 | A year on average | $100 then, now |
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| TransportCars, COEs, petrol, buses, trains, taxis and flights | +54.4% | 4.3% | $154.39 |
| FoodHawker food, restaurants and food from shops | +28.3% | 2.5% | $128.25 |
| HealthDoctors, hospitals, medicines and health insurance | +24.7% | 2.2% | $124.69 |
| All itemsEverything households buy | +22.4% | 2.0% | $122.41 |
| Recreation, sport and cultureHolidays, hobbies, pets and sport | +19.3% | 1.7% | $119.32 |
| EducationSchool and university fees, tuition | +18.4% | 1.7% | $118.44 |
| Housing and utilitiesRent, imputed rent for owners, upkeep, electricity, gas and water | +12.2% | 1.1% | $112.19 |
| Household durables and servicesFurniture, appliances, domestic help and cleaning | +9.2% | 0.9% | $109.16 |
| Miscellaneous goods and servicesPersonal care, alcohol and tobacco, and other services | +6.8% | 0.6% | $106.78 |
| Clothing and footwear | −1.7% | −0.2% | $98.27 |
| Information and communicationPhones, computers, software, mobile and broadband plans | −7.2% | −0.7% | $92.80 |
2016’s average index to Sep 2026’s, by SingStat’s CPI for each division. A year on average is compound.
Common mistakes
- “This tells me what my flat is worth now.” No. The CPI leaves out home prices: it counts housing as rent. For a flat, HDB’s and URA’s price indices are the measure.
- “My pay rise beat inflation if it was bigger than this month’s rate.” Compare like with like: your pay now against your pay a year ago, with the change in prices over the same year. Put last year’s pay into the calculator to see what it is in today’s money.
- “$100 then is worth less now.” The note is still $100. What changes is what it buys: the calculator says how many of today’s dollars buy the same as $100 did then.
- “Prices always go up.” Not every year: Singapore’s CPI fell over the year in eight of the years from 1962 to 2025, most recently 2020. Put two years either way round and the calculator works it out.
Questions people ask
How much is $100 from 10 years ago worth today in Singapore?
By SingStat’s consumer price index, $100 in 2016 is worth $122.41 in Sep 2026 money, and $100 in 2000 is worth $161.95. Prices rose 22.4% since 2016, 2.0% a year on average.
How is the value of money in a past year worked out?
Amount × the CPI in the later year ÷ the CPI in the earlier year. SingStat publishes the CPI for every year since 1961 and every month; the calculator shows the two index numbers and the sum under each answer.
Why use a year’s average and not a month?
SingStat’s yearly CPI is the average of that year’s 12 months, so it stands for the year as a whole. For the latest figures, the calculator uses the latest month, because the year isn’t over yet.
Can I use it for food, school fees or health costs?
Yes: open “Use the prices of one kind of spending” and pick one of SingStat’s ten divisions. The table above shows how each has moved over the last 10 years.
What is this month’s inflation rate?
It is on our inflation page, with MAS Core, what moved it, and your savings after inflation.
How it works
- The sum: amount × index in the later year ÷ index in the earlier year. A year’s index is SingStat’s annual average (table M213801, 2024 = 100, since 1961); “Sep 2026” is that month’s index (table M213751). So $100 from a year is compared with the year’s average prices, not its January or December.
- “A year on average” is compound, from the middle of the first year (or month) to the middle of the second.
- One kind of spending uses that division’s own index, from SingStat’s same tables; what is in each is on the inflation page. Some go back less far; the calculator says when.
- The CPI measures what resident households spend on consumption. It does not include home prices, so it does not say what a flat bought in a year is worth now; and it is an average, so your own costs can move differently.
- A job reads SingStat’s tables twice a day and on release days (how). The calculator runs in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.
- SingStat’s data are under the Singapore Open Data Licence: “Contains information from Consumer Price Index accessed on 31 Oct 2026 from SingStat Table Builder, which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.” Numbers.sg is not connected to SingStat or MAS, and no one pays us. See our disclaimer and corrections.
Changes to this page
New: an inflation calculator. Put in any amount and two years since 1961 and see what it is worth in the other year’s money, by SingStat’s CPI for all items or one of its ten divisions (food, health, education and the rest), with the sum shown. Also: $100 from each year in today’s money, and what rose most by kind of spending since 2016. Open the inflation calculator