Gold vs Inflation
Whether gold has kept pace with U.S. consumer prices, measured over any period you choose.
Gold
+11,507.9%
World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet)
US Consumer Prices
+741.7%
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
One gold, priced in us consumer prices
13.2
was 0.955 in January 1971
Logarithmic scale — each gridline is ten times the one below. These series span more than two orders of magnitude, which a linear axis would flatten into a single line.
The comparison begins in January 1960 because that is the first period in which both series exist. Values before then are not estimated. One gold bought 0.955 of us consumer prices at the start of this period and 13.2 at the end.