$20,000 in 1964 equates to $153,483.87, according to [1]. The population of china is currently 1.365B, according to [2]. A dollar today is equivalent to $0.04

$20,000 in 1964 equates to $153,483.87, according to [1]. The population of china is currently 1.365B, according to [2]. A dollar today is equivalent to $0.04 in 1914 according to [1]. I should add at this point that there are a lot of different ways to measure inflation. The number of passanger vehicles is around 250 million in the US today - how many of those are "cars" is up to interpretation. [3] 1: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States#Total_number_of_vehicles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...