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Year | Dollar Course | Cost of Foodstuffs Index (Cawler) | Wholesale Prices | Cost of Living Index (Federal Statistical Office /G. Bry) | 1913 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 1914 | 102 | 101 | 105 | 103 | 1915 | 116 | 143 | 142 | 129 | 1916 | 132 | 198 | 152 | 170 | 1917 | 157 | 213 | 179 | 253 | 1918 | 143 | 229 | 217 | 313 | 1919 | 470 | 326 | 415 | 415 | 1920 | 1,500 | 953 | 1486 | 1020 | Source: Jürgen Kocka, Klassengesellschaft im Krieg: Deutsche Sozialgeschichte 1914-1918 [Class Society in Wartime: German Social History, 1914-1918]. Göttingen, 1973, p. 17. Translation: Jeffrey Verhey |