Lakh and crore converter

Convert between lakh and crore and million and billion, exactly. Type an amount, pick its unit, and read it in every other unit.

1 crore

In figures
1,00,00,000
10,000,000
one crore
Ones
1,00,00,000
Thousand
10,000 thousand
Lakh
100 lakh
Crore
1 crore
Arab
0.01 arab
Kharab
0.0001 kharab
Million
10 million
Billion
0.01 billion
Trillion
0.00001 trillion

Lakh, crore, million and billion at a glance

IndianFiguresInternational
1 lakh1,00,000100 thousand
10 lakh10,00,0001 million
50 lakh50,00,0005 million
1 crore1,00,00,00010 million
10 crore10,00,00,000100 million
100 crore (1 arab)1,00,00,00,0001 billion
1,000 crore10,00,00,00,00010 billion
1 lakh crore10,00,00,00,00,0001 trillion

The quick rule

Divide crore by 100 for billions and multiply by 10 for millions: 2,500 crore is 25 billion, 3.5 crore is 35 million. For lakh, divide by 10: 75 lakh is 7.5 million.

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Questions

How many million is 1 crore?

1 crore is 10 million (1,00,00,000 = 10,000,000).

How many lakh make a million?

10 lakh make 1 million.

How much is 1 billion in crore?

1 billion is 100 crore, also called 1 arab.

How much is 1 lakh crore?

1 lakh crore is 1 trillion (10¹²), the scale used for India’s budget and GDP figures.

Why do Indian numbers have commas in different places?

Indian grouping puts a comma after the first three digits and then every two (12,34,56,789), matching thousand, lakh and crore. International grouping uses every three digits (123,456,789) for thousand, million and billion.