Lakh Crore Converter

Ten. A lakh is one hundred thousand and a million is one thousand thousand, so a million is ten lakh. Written out, 10,00,000 in Indian grouping is exactly 1,000,000 in international grouping — the same number, with the commas in different places, which is most of why the two look so unrelated at a glance.

One hundred. A crore is ten million, so a billion is a hundred crore. Ten billion is a thousand crore, and a trillion is one lakh crore — which is how Indian budget figures are usually quoted, because Indian English keeps counting in crore rather than moving to a larger word.

In practice, more crore. The older words arab, kharab, neel and padma exist, but they are archaic enough in modern usage that a figure written in them would confuse most readers. Indian newspapers and budget documents write two lakh crore rather than two kharab, and that is the convention this page follows.

Because the Indian system places a separator after the first three digits and then after every two, rather than after every three. The last three digits are grouped as hundreds, and everything above them counts in pairs — which is exactly the same structure as the words, where thousand is followed by lakh and crore at hundred-fold steps rather than thousand-fold ones.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, along with their diasporas and any business dealing with them. They are standard in official documents, newspapers and financial reporting across South Asia, so an international company operating there will meet both systems in the same week and often in the same spreadsheet.