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An interactive calculator that converts historical money amounts intopresent-day equivalents for six countries: the United States, UnitedKingdom, Germany, France, Canada and Japan, covering 1750 to 2026.

Instead of returning a single adjusted figure, it expresses the amountin terms students can picture: hours of work at the wage of the time,loaves of bread, months of rent. Each result page shows the underlyingCPI values, the interpolation method where annual observations aremissing, and the source series.

Useful for lessons on inflation, purchasing power, industrialisationand wage history. Students can enter any amount and year and compareacross countries, which makes it suitable for open-ended exercises aswell as demonstrations.

Data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the UK Office forNational Statistics, Eurostat and national statistical offices. Themethodology, including the handling of currency reforms such as the1948 Deutsche Mark reform and the 1960 French franc redenomination, isdocumented on the site.

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