Compare purchasing power and gold on the same real basis.
Official consumer-price indices and stored gold observations are compared only for months available in both series. Publication delays remain visible.
Did gold offset the loss of purchasing power?
The comparison combines official consumer-price indices with stored EUR gold prices. The shared curve ends at the newest month available in both series.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Not investment advice.
- Purchasing power of cash
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- Inflation-adjusted gold value
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- Nominal gold value today
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The chart shows both series in purchasing power of the start year. Today’s nominal gold value is reported separately because official inflation data is published with a delay and is not estimated. Premiums, spread, custody, tax and other costs are excluded.
Inflation: Eurostat dataset prc_hicp_midx, all-items HICP, monthly index 2015=100. Gold: stored Gold Update daily observations sourced from Gold API, using the final available observation per month. Missing months are omitted, not interpolated.