This page is a list of currency orders of magnitude, with examples.
Up to 1
1 to 100
1,000 to 100,000
103
One thousand dollars
$1,000
Used car (15 years old, runs)
$1,000
Midrange personal computer
$1,000
A nice digital camera
$6,600
Approximate GDP per capita (PPP ) for the Republic of the Congo (2017)[3]
104
Ten thousand dollars
$10,000
Approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Libya (2017)[3]
$17,500
Approximate world GDP per capita (PPP) (2017)[4]
$26,120
Average annual tuition at a 4-year university in the United States (2016)[5]
$37,149
Average cost of a new car in the United States (2018)[6]
$59,800
Approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for the United States (2017)[3]
$61,120
Annual GNI per capita (PPP) for the United States (2017)[7]
$71,800
Approximate GDP per capita (PPP) for Norway (2017)[3]
$78,200
Estimated annual total cost of attending Harvard University (less with financial aid)[8]
105
One hundred thousand dollars
$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
$131,000
Most amount of money won on a single episode of Jeopardy! , as of 2019[9]
$566,400
Largest theoretically possible win on a single episode of Jeopardy! , as of 2015
1 million to 100 million
106
One million dollars
$1,000,000
Huge house in suburbs; nice condo downtown in large city
$7,000,000
Net worth required to be in the US top 1 percent
107
Ten million dollars
$10,000,000
A small hospital
108
One hundred million dollars
$100,000,000
Large city office building
$445,600,000
Price of an Airbus A380 , the world's largest passenger airliner[10]
1 billion to 100 billion
109
One billion dollars
$1.5×109
Burj Khalifa , world's tallest building
$1.586×109
The highest lottery jackpot ever recorded, the 13 January 2016 Powerball , with an annuity of $1,586,400,000 and lump sum of $983,000,000.
$2.5×109
Estimated cost of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
$2.8×109
Net worth of Donald Trump according to Bloomberg [11]
1010
Ten billion dollars
$18.18×109
Gross Domestic Product of Iceland [12]
$45×109
Estimated cost of high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles , the route to be built by the California High-Speed Rail Authority [13]
$55×109
Cost of a human mission to Mars with a crew of four (cost would be spread out over ten years) using Robert Zubrin 's Mars Direct plan[14]
$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.[15] 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[16]
1011
One hundred billion dollars
$100×109
Budget for the reconstruction of Iraq
$100×109
Total cost of the International Space Station [17]
$150×109
Net worth of Jeff Bezos , the world's richest man in 2019[18]
$151×109
2012 cost estimate by Amtrak for construction of a high-speed rail link from Boston to Washington, D.C.[19]
$169×109
Tax assessment of all real estate in Manhattan in FY 2004[20]
$299.3×109
GDP of Greece (2017)[21]
$409×109
Total fortune of John D. Rockefeller in 2018 dollars[22] [23]
$416×109
Estimated total fortune of Mansa Musa , often considered the wealthiest person in history,[24] in 2017 dollars[25] [26]
$425×109
Construction costs of the Interstate Highway System in 2006 dollars,[27] the "largest public works program since the Pyramids "[28]
$779×109
United States budget deficit in 2018[29]
$914.8×109
Total assessed (taxable) market value of Manhattan real estate for FY2014–2015 [30]
$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)[31]
1 trillion to 100 trillion
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Global loss of ecosystem services due to land use change is $US 4.3–20.2 trillion/yr.
Ecoservices contribute more than twice as much to human well-being as global GDP.
Estimates in monetary units are useful to show the relative magnitude of ecoservices.
Valuation of ecosystem services is not the same as commodification or privatization.
Ecosystem services are best considered public goods requiring new institutions.
Largest lawsuit
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^ "World Debt Reaches Record $281 Trillion" . Bloomberg . February 21, 2021.
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