Crore

A crore (/krɔːr/; abbreviated cr) is a quantity of ten million (10,000,000 or 10⁷) in the Indian numbering system, equal to 100 lakh. In the Indian convention of digit grouping, it is formatted 1,00,00,000.¹ The crore is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. The next named numbers after it are arab (a billion), and kharab (a hundred billion), although they are not widely used in the modern-day Indian subcontinent.

The word crore derives from the Prakrit word kroḍi, which in turn comes from the Sanskrit koṭi (कोटि),² denoting ten million in the Indian number system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 10⁰ up to 10¹⁹.

By language

• Assamese: ক্ৰোড় kroṛ
• Bengali: কোটি kōṭī (though some also use the word "ক্ৰোড়" kroṛ)
• Bhojpuri: कड़ो kaṛo
• Hindustani: (Hindi: करोड़, Urdu: کروڑ) kroṛ
• Dhivehi: ކޯރޯ kāroo
• Gujarati: કરોડ koṛo
• Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ kōṭi
• Kashmiri: کروڑ kroṛ
• Khasi: kro
• Malayalam: കോടി kōṭi
• Marathi: कोटी kōṭī
• Meitei: ꯀꯩꯡ kōṭi1
• Nepali: करोड kroṛ
• Odia: କୋଟି kōṭi
• Punjabi: (Shahmukhi:کروڑ Gurmukhi: ਕਰੋੜ)
• Sanskrit: कोटि kōṭi
• Sinhala: කෝටිය kōṭiya
• Tamil: கோடி kōṭi
• Telugu: కోటి kōṭi

Large amounts of money in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are often written in terms of crore. For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteen crore rupees", "₹ 15 crore".¹ In the abbreviated form, usage such as "₹ 15 cr" is common.³

Trillions (in the short scale) of money are often written or spoken of in terms of lakh crore. For example, one trillion rupees is equivalent to:

• ₹1 lakh crore
• ₹10¹²
• ₹10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian notation
• ₹1,000,000,000,000 in metric notation