Orders of magnitude (currency)

This page is a progressive and labeled list of the SI currency orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

Orders of magnitude
(money expressed in United States dollars)

Factor ($)	Short scale	Money	Item
10 −17	one Zimbabwean cent	$3.33 * 10−17	Exchange rate on February 2 of 2009
10−3	one mill	$0.001	smallest unit of currency, used in pricing gasoline and computing taxes
10−2	one cent	$0.01	used chiefly for making change
10−1	one dime	$0.10	highest common price per page for self-service monochrome photocopying
100	one dollar	$1	double cheeseburger at McDonald's
		$4	typical drink of gourmet coffee
101	ten dollars	$10	wristwatch with quartz circuit; 20 lb. sack of rice
102	one hundred dollars	$100	2 or 3 video games
		$400	approximate annual GDP per capita (PPP) for East Timor (2004, CIA World Factbook)
103	one thousand dollars	$1,000	used car (15 years old, runs)
		$1,000	midrange personal computer
		$1,000	a nice digital camera; approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Nigeria (2004)
		$9,117	approximate world GDP per capita (PPP) (2008)
104	ten thousand dollars	$10,000	cheap new car
		$10,000	approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Russia (2004)
		$20,000	(Israel, Greece) - $40,000 (Jersey, Norway, United States) - approximate GDP per capita (PPP) in most first world nations (2004)
		$26,000	cost of an average new car
		$30,000	cost of an Engineering degree from an average university
		$35,060	annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for employed citizens of the United States, as of 2002
105	one hundred thousand dollars	$100,000 - $999,999	In the United States, a "six figure salary" is sometimes seen as a milestone of significant wealth, and indicator of higher social class.
		$100,000	small house far from cities
		$100,000	cost of a Law degree from a prestigious university
		$101,000	median value of a home in the U.S. in 1990
		$120,000	median value of a home in the U.S. in 2000
106	one million dollars	$1,000,000	huge house in suburbs; nice condo downtown in large city
107	ten million dollars	$10,000,000	a small hospital
108	one hundred million dollars	$100,000,000	large city office building
		$264,000,000	estimated price of an Airbus A380 airplane
109	one billion dollars	$1.5×109	Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building
		$2.5×109	estimated cost of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
1010	ten billion dollars	$15.83×109	Gross Domestic Product of Iceland
		$45×109	cost of the high-speed train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the route for which is to be constructed by the California High-Speed Rail Authority
		$55×109	cost of a manned mission to Mars with a crew of four astronauts (cost would be spread out over ten years) using Robert Zubrin’s Mars Direct plan
		$62×109	fortune of Warren Buffett, world's richest man, as of 2008 [2]
		$64.8×109	amount of paper losses in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, exposed in 2008, the largest in history, including $20 billion of cash losses. By 2010, clawback lawsuits against those who had profited from the Ponzi scheme had recovered $10 billion, thus allowing cash loss victims to be compensated at 50 cents on the dollar
1011	one hundred billion dollars	$100×109	budget for reconstruction of Iraq
		$100×109	total cost of the International Space Station
		$151×109	2012 cost estimate by Amtrak for construction of a high-speed rail link from Boston to Washington, D.C.
		$169×109	total value of all real estate in Manhattan
		$236×109	Gross Domestic Product of Greece (CIA World Factbook)
		$420×109	approximate United States budget deficit
		$425×109	cost of construction of the Interstate Highway System (in 2006 dollars), the "largest public works program since the Pyramids"
		$972×109	total cost as of March 2010 of the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan ($712 billion for the Iraq War and $260 billion for the War in Afghanistan)
1012	one trillion dollars	$1.26×1012	total value of all real estate in Florida
		$1.7×1012	total cost of the War in Iraq as calculated in 2013 by the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University
		$2.2×1012	cost of a mission to Alpha Centauri as proposed in 1968 by physicist Freeman J. Dyson—a space ark would be built using an Orion nuclear pulse propulsion rocket powered by hydrogen bombs. The rocket would have a payload of 50,000 tonnes and be able to travel at 3.3% of the speed of light and reach Alpha Centauri in 133 years. The rocket ship would have a crew of 250. This atomic rocket ship is buildable with present-day technology. (Cost is calculated by multiplying original 1968 cost of $367 billion by six.)
		$2.5×1012	approximate United States annual federal budget as of 2005
		$9.06×1012	United States national debt as of October 2007 [3]
1013	ten trillion dollars	$12.39×1012	United States GDP (PPP) as of 2005 [4]
		$42.7 ×1012	total wealth of all 10.9 million rich people (defined as those with $1 million or more of investable assets) in the world as of 2010. Thus, the rich, 0.15% of the world's population of 7 billion, control 30.5% of all world financial assets of $140 trillion.
		$53.5 ×1012	total of all private household net worth in the United States as of Sep. 2009
		$55×1012	global GDP (PPP)
		$62×1012	value of all real estate in the developed countries (includes $48 trillion residential real estate and $14 trillion commercial real estate) as of 2002
		$67×1012	total amount of banking assets in the shadow banking system—about half of all world banking assets—according to a 2012 report by the Financial Stability Board.
1014	one hundred trillion dollars	$140×1012	total value of all world financial assets
		$510 ×1012	total world derivative contracts as of June 2007 [5]
1031	ten nonillion dollars	$26.9 ×1031	approximate value of exoplanet PSR J1719-1438 A

External links

• GNI per capita 2002, Atlas method and PPP
• Visual chart