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Lakh to Million Converter
Enter lakhs and press Convert to get millions. One lakh is 100,000, so 10 lakh is 1 million.
About the Lakh to Million Converter
Lakh and million describe the same kind of quantity on different numbering systems: the Indian system groups digits as thousand, lakh (10⁵), crore (10⁷), while the international system uses thousand, million (10⁶), billion (10⁹). Confusing the two is a factor-of-ten error, which is why salary and valuation conversions matter.
The arithmetic is exact: 1 lakh = 0.1 million, 10 lakh = 1 million, 1 crore = 10 million, and 100 crore = 1 billion. Memorising those four lines covers almost every conversion you will need.
How the calculation works
- 1 lakh = 100,000 = 0.1 million
- 10 lakh = 1 million
- 1 crore = 10 million · 100 crore = 1 billion
Reference values
| Lakh | Million | Crore |
|---|---|---|
| 1 lakh | 0.1 million | 0.01 crore |
| 5 lakh | 0.5 million | 0.05 crore |
| 10 lakh | 1 million | 0.1 crore |
| 25 lakh | 2.5 million | 0.25 crore |
| 50 lakh | 5 million | 0.5 crore |
| 100 lakh | 10 million | 1 crore |
Worked examples
- 1 Lakh (100,000) = 0.1 Million (1,000,000).
- 2 Lakh (100,000) = 0.2 Million (1,000,000).
- 5 Lakh (100,000) = 0.5 Million (1,000,000).
- 10 Lakh (100,000) = 1 Million (1,000,000).
- 50 Lakh (100,000) = 5 Million (1,000,000).
- 100 Lakh (100,000) = 10 Million (1,000,000).
Checking the answer
Ten lakh make a million, so the answer is always a tenth of the lakh figure: 45 lakh is 4.5 million. An answer ten times larger means the division ran the wrong way.
Common mistakes
- Reading 1.5 million as 1.5 lakh instead of 15 lakh.
- Writing 100 lakh where 10 lakh was meant, after a decimal slip.
- Forgetting that lakh is 10⁵ and million is 10⁶, so the million figure is always the smaller one.
Using this conversion
Salaries, settlements and property prices are the usual cases: an Indian offer of 12 lakh a year is 1.2 million, which is how an overseas employer would write the same package. Keeping the currency out of the count is what prevents the factor-of-ten error.
When precision matters
Salary bands are quoted in round lakhs, so one decimal place in millions settles a comparison. For a settlement, convert the exact rupee figure and use the lakh-to-million scale only to describe it.
Go through crore as a second route: 100 lakh is 1 crore, and 1 crore is 10 million — a hundred times this result. Both hops agreeing is the check.