Measuring Worth: A collection of calculators to help answer questions of Comparative Relative Value

Have you ever wondered what the price of gold was in 1907? Or what the GDP was in 1932? Presented here are many useful historic data sets that we developed in order to answer such questions. Some of these are currently hosted on EH.Net.

• The Annual Value Consumer Price Index for the United States, 1774 – 2008
• The Annual Value of the Consumer Bundle for the United States, 1900 – 2007
• The Annual Real and Nominal GDP for the United States, 1790 – 2008
• The Annual Wages in the United States, Unskilled Labor and Manufaturing, 1774 – present
• The Annual Real and Nominal GDP for the United Kingdom, 1300 – 2008
• The Annual Price Index, Real and Nominal Earnings for the United Kingdom, 1264 – 2008
• The Annual Nominal GDP and Price Index for the China 1952 – 2007
• The Annual Real and Nominal GDP, Price Indexes and Wage for Japan 1879 – 2007
• The Price of Gold, 1257 – 2007
• Exchange Rates Between the United States Dollar and Forty-one Currencies
• Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791
• Interest Rate Series for the United Kingdom and the United States, 1729 – 2008