The answer depends on your own country's economic circumstances, but here in Australia the "cost of living" has increased by about 520% between 1974 (when the TV series began) and 2006. This is based on change in the Consumer Price Index, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
So $AUD6m in 1974 would have the same purchasing power as $AUD37.2m in 2006.
I guess you could say Steve Austin would be The Forty Million Dollar Man in today's economy.
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Good stuff! According to the Inflation Calculator at inflationdata.com, inflation in the United States has increased by 346.24% between January 1974 and May 2007 (latest available at the time of writing). That would make the $6,000,000 man of 1974 the $26,774,400 dollar man today in the USofA.
$ 1 million of today's dollars would be worth $52,944 in 1800. 1 million in 1800 would be worth 18.87 million today.
Much more detail is needed. Is it a bill or a coin? What's its date? If it's a bill, is it a federally-issued bill or does it have the name of a private bank on it? If it's a coin, is it gold or silver? Please post a new, separate question with that information.
Ok. Imagine what you can get for $1 today. Mabye a candy bar. Back then you could get 20 candy bars for your dollar.
i would say a little under 120
The so-called Great Train Robbery, in 1963. A Royal Mail train was stopped in Buckinghamshire, England and the thieves got away with over 2.6 million pounds sterling, which would today be worth over 40 million pounds or 64 million American dollars.
$ 1 million of today's dollars would be worth $52,944 in 1800. 1 million in 1800 would be worth 18.87 million today.
It would we worth about 10'123 dollar.
102 million.
Not sure but probably around 10 million dollars today
What would $3.65 from 1986 be worth today?
24 million
If you are talking about cash (US dollar bills) worth 1 million dollars from 1977, they would still be worth the same 1 million dollars today and would remain to be worth the same 1 million dollars a hundred years from now. If you are talking about investments like bank deposits or shares or bonds etc., then the value would have varied depending on the rate of returns of the instrument in which the money was deposited.
What would 1 sestertius be worth today in Australian dollars
it would be worth one dollar
what would one dollar in 1821 be worth today
If you hold your 1852 $1 gold piece, it would worth more than $100 today Inflation continues to drastically decrease the value of a dollar. What you could buy for dollar in 1852 would cost you $27.60, meaning that dollar would be worth about 4 cents in today's world.
20 million