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Trillion vs Crore — Which Is Bigger?

1 trillion is bigger — it equals 1,00,000 crore. Written out, 1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 and 1 crore is 1,00,00,000. Going the other way, 1 crore is 0.00001 trillion.

Side by side

1 Trillion, Indian digits10,00,00,00,00,000
1 Trillion, international digits1,000,000,000,000
1 Trillion as a power of ten10¹²
1 Trillion on the other scale10 Kharab
1 Crore, Indian digits1,00,00,000
1 Crore, international digits10,000,000
1 Crore as a power of ten10⁷
1 Crore on the other scale10 Million

Both directions

To go from trillion to crore, multiply by 1,00,000. So 5 trillion is 5,00,000 crore, and 100 trillion is 1,00,00,000 crore.

To go the other way, divide by 1,00,000. 500 crore is 0.005 trillion, and 1 crore is 0.00001 trillion.

Where each one is used

Trillion is where international reporting lands for national GDP and total government spending. Indian coverage of the same figures almost always says "lakh crore" instead, which is the same quantity.

Crore is the unit Indian public life runs on — film budgets and box office, cricket auction fees, company results, government schemes. Indian English almost never leaves it, preferring "1,20,000 crore" to switching up to a larger unit.

Trillion to Crore at a glance

AmountEquals
1 Trillion1,00,000 Crore
2 Trillion2,00,000 Crore
5 Trillion5,00,000 Crore
10 Trillion10,00,000 Crore
25 Trillion25,00,000 Crore
50 Trillion50,00,000 Crore
100 Trillion1,00,00,000 Crore
500 Trillion5,00,00,000 Crore
1,000 Trillion10,00,00,000 Crore

The full scale

Indian unitDigitsPowerInternational
Thousand1,00010³1 Thousand
Lakh1,00,00010⁵100 Thousand
Crore1,00,00,00010⁷10 Million
Arab1,00,00,00,00010⁹1 Billion
Kharab1,00,00,00,00,00010¹¹100 Billion
Neel1,00,00,00,00,00,00010¹³10 Trillion
Padma1,00,00,00,00,00,00,00010¹⁵1 Quadrillion
Shankh1,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00010¹⁷100 Quadrillion

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Indian system

Digits
10,00,00,00,00,000
In units
10 Kharab
Media style
1 Lakh Crore
Words
Ten Kharab
हिन्दी
दस खरब
اردو
دس کھرب

International system

Digits
1,000,000,000,000
In units
1 Trillion
Words
One Trillion

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, trillion or crore?

Trillion. One trillion equals 1,00,000 crore, so it is 1,00,000 times the size.

How many crores are in 1 trillion?

1,00,000. In digits, 1 trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 and 1 crore is 1,00,00,000.

Why do the two systems have different units at all?

The international system introduces a new name every three digits — thousand, million, billion, trillion. The Indian system introduces one every two digits after a thousand — lakh, crore, arab, kharab. Both count the same way; they just group and name the digits differently, which is also why Indian commas fall at 1,00,00,000 rather than 10,000,000.

Is 10,00,00,00,00,000 the same as 1,000,000,000,000?

Yes — those are the same number written with Indian and international commas. Only the punctuation changes; the digits and the value do not.

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