Orders of magnitude (currency)

This is a list of orders of magnitude for money expressed in United States dollars.

The following articles describe things which have the given orders of magnitude of value, as given in U.S. dollars, as of 2003.

$0.01 - used chiefly in making change
$0.10 - price to make a photocopy
$1 - hamburger at McDonald's
- $4 typical drink of "gourmet" coffee
$10 - wristwatch with quartz circuit
- $20 - lap dance
$100 - TV, VCR, microwave or pair of shoes
- $490 annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of Sierra Leone, as of 2002
$1000 - used car (15 years old, runs)
- $1000 annual income (GNI) per capita (PPP) for citizens of Chad, as of 2002
$10000 - cheap new car
- $35,060 annual income (GNI) per capita for citizens of the United States, as of 2002
$100,000 - small house far from cities
$1,000,000 - huge house in suburbs, condo in densest inner cities
$10,000,000 - a small hospital
$100,000,000 - large office building in city
- $264,000,000 - estimated price of an Airbus A380 airplane.
$1,000,000,000 - billion (long scale: milliard)
$10,000,000,000
- $40.7 bn (long scale: milliard), fortune as of 2003 of Bill Gates, world's richest man
$100,000,000,000 - budget for reconstruction of Iraq
- $420 bn (approx), United States budget deficit
$1,000,000,000,000 - trillion (long scale: billion)
- $7×10¹², United States national debt as of December 2003
$10,000,000,000,000
- $4.3×10¹³, global 2002 Gross Domestic Product, (PPP 2000 US$, source: World Bank)
$100,000,000,000,000
- $400 trillion ($4.0×10¹⁴), a commonly stated (meaningless?) estimate of the total wealth of the world

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