Gold Price History Vs Inflation

Interactive chart of historical data for real inflation adjusted gold prices per ounce back to 1915.

Gold price history vs inflation. Gold prices 100 year historical chart. As we can see from the chart above in 1980 cumulative inflation since 1913 was 780 and by the year 2000 cumulative inflation was 1675. Inflation adjusted gold price.

The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today s latest value. The series is deflated using the headline consumer price index cpi with the most recent month as the base. You can even view a historical inflation adjusted gold price chart using the 1980 cpi formula.

Gold price vs stock market 100 year chart. Because gold is considered a hedge against inflation many investors decide to buy gold to protect their capital against value erosion which arises from an increase in general prices. In 1980 the price of gold peaked and the annual inflation rate declined but cumulative inflation climbed steadily upward.

The price of gold and average inflation are listed for 1915 through 1946 m1 currency information was not available for those years. For easy reference this page also contains a simple table that provides gold s price change and percentage change using a single day 30 day six month one year five year and 16 year timeframes. This chart compares the historical percentage return for the dow jones industrial average against the return for gold prices over the last 100 years.

M1 currency consists of funds that are available for spending including currency in circulation such as in your wallet or the cash register at a store traveler s checks and demand deposits such as money held in a checking account. For 1833 through1914 only the price of gold was available.