Inflation Impact Calculator

'Future cost of same goods' shows what today's basket of goods will cost you to buy in the future. 'Today's purchasing power' shows what your current amount will be able to buy in the future, in today's terms — two ways of viewing the same erosion of money's value.

It's a quick mental-math shortcut: dividing 72 by the inflation rate estimates how many years it takes for money's value to roughly halve at that rate — included here as a fast intuition check alongside the precise calculation.

No, it's a generic inflation illustrator for any amount and time horizon. For goal-specific inflation-adjusted planning (like a child's education or a retirement corpus), use the dedicated calculators for those goals instead.

Because a fixed rupee amount buys progressively less over time, planning with today's costs alone can significantly understate what you'll actually need at a future date — this tool quantifies that gap.

Yes — future cost rises and purchasing power falls faster the higher the inflation rate you enter, and the effect compounds more over longer time horizons.