Lakh Crore Converter (to Million, Billion)

About the Lakh Crore Converter (to Million, Billion)

Convert between the Indian number scale — thousand, lakh (10⁵), crore (10⁷), arab (10⁹) and kharab (10¹¹) — and the international one — million (10⁶), billion (10⁹) and trillion (10¹²). Type an amount the way it appears in a newspaper, a payslip or a budget: 3.5 lakh crore, ₹12,50,000, 1.2 bn, 1 crore 20 lakh or twenty five lakh.

The result shows the number with Indian grouping (35,00,00,00,00,000) and international grouping (3,500,000,000,000), in words in both systems — including the traditional arab and kharab — and in every unit, from lakh and crore to million, billion and trillion. Everything is calculated exactly with whole-number arithmetic, so no digit is ever lost to rounding. A ready table lists 1 thousand to 1 lakh crore.

Common uses

• Reading Indian budget, GDP and company figures (“₹50 lakh crore”) in millions, billions or trillions.
• Turning a salary or a property price in lakh into millions for a form, a CV or a client abroad.
• Writing a large number correctly with commas in the Indian or the international style.
• Explaining the two number systems in class, with the ready table.

The Indian and international scales

• 1 lakh = 1,00,000 = 100 thousand (10⁵); 10 lakh = 1 million
• 1 crore = 1,00,00,000 = 10 million (10⁷); 100 crore = 1 billion = 1 arab
• 1 kharab = 100 arab = 10,000 crore = 100 billion (10¹¹)
• 1 lakh crore = 10 kharab = 1 trillion (10¹²)

So to go from crore to million multiply by 10, from crore to billion divide by 100, and from lakh crore to trillion keep the number: 3.5 lakh crore is 3.5 trillion.

Digit grouping

Indian grouping puts a comma after the last three digits and then after every two: 1,23,45,678. International grouping uses threes: 12,345,678. The Indian pattern is the en-IN number format in the Unicode CLDR locale data that phones and browsers use. Government of India Budget documents give amounts in ₹ crore with Indian grouping, and very large amounts are usually written as “lakh crore” rather than arab or kharab.

Arab, kharab and the long scale

Arab (10⁹) and kharab (10¹¹) are traditional names used in Hindi, Urdu and Nepali; Indian English documents prefer crore-based wording such as 100 crore or 1 lakh crore. Traditional names go on beyond kharab (neel, padma, shankh), but they are rarely used, so this converter stops at kharab.

The billion here is the short-scale billion (10⁹) used in English today. Some other languages use the long scale, where a billion is a million million (10¹²) and 10⁹ is a milliard.

Limitations

• Converts number scales, not currencies: ₹ or $ typed with the amount is kept as it is. Use a currency converter to change money from one currency to another.
• Amounts up to 21 digits (about 10²¹) and up to 12 decimal places are accepted.
• Number words are read for simple amounts (twenty five lakh, two hundred crore); for anything longer, type digits.

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