There are only a few hours left before the start of one of the most anticipated moments of the year: the extraordinary Christmas Lottery draw. This December 22, thousands of people will watch the children of San Ildefonso and wait for them to sing their number and … that this coincides with the Fat.
This first prize of the draw is worth 400,000 euros, including 72,000 intended for taxes. The winner keeps the figure of 328,000 euros to whom it will be necessary to apply a deduction, a succulent amount although insufficient in most cases to retire from work.
If we asked lottery players what they would do with El Gordo’s money if they got it, all the answers would probably point in the same direction: plug holes, a whim, a car or a house.
This should be the jackpot with inflation
The first prize of the Christmas Lottery amounted to four million euros per series – 400,000 to the tenth – in 2011. Since then, the amount has remained fixed. However, there are fewer and fewer things you can buy with 360,000 euros since the cost of living continues to rise.
According to the INE, the variation of the National General Index according to the 2021 basic CPI system since From December 2011 to November 2025, it was 30.3%the percentage increase in prices since then. In this way, adding this percentage to the 400,000 euros so that El Gordo is updated according to inflation, the first prize of the National Lottery It should be around 521,200 euros in 2025that is, the price should increase by 121,000 euros.
It must be taken into account that housing, for example, increased by 21% compared to prices in 2007, the year of the famous real estate bubble. On the other hand, vehicles have increased by 40% since 2019.
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