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Measuring Worth

MeasuringWorth is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic variables. The comparators allow you to convert past values into current values (and vice versa).

The Comparators

What is the Annualized Growth Rate of Various Historical Economic Series?
Seven Ways to Compare the Relative Worth of a United States Dollar, 1790 to Present

Five Ways to Compare the Relative Worth of a United Kingdom Pound, 1270 to Present

The Annual Real and Nominal GDP, Prices & Wages for Spain, 1850 – to Present 

Exchange Rate Between the United States Dollar and Forty Other Countries, 1913 to Present