- The tooth fairy is paying 14% lower than they did final 12 months, marking the largest decline in 27 years. The typical little one acquired $5.01 per tooth within the U.S., which was the bottom quantity of any tracked nation.
Occasions are tight for the legendary beings of childhood. Santa Claus will seemingly be bringing fewer toys this vacation season, as tariffs and financial uncertainty make his helpers extra funds acutely aware. Now, even the tooth fairy is chopping again.
Delta Dental, for the previous 27 years, has been monitoring how a lot the tooth fairy leaves underneath youngsters’s pillows as they lose tooth. And the latest examine exhibits a median value per tooth of $5.01 within the U.S. That’s a 14% decline from final 12 months’s $5.84—the largest on document.
As well as, the tooth fairy isn’t giving further presents as incessantly. Final 12 months, 21% of youngsters stated they’d acquired “one thing else” together with the money. This 12 months, that quantity has fallen to 16%.
“Since 1998, Delta Dental has tracked Tooth Fairy giving as a well timed reminder for households that good oral well being is an important half of a kid’s total well-being,” Delta Dental wrote in a press launch.
The 2025 drop additionally signifies that for the primary time since 2000, the S&P index has outperformed the Tooth Fairy Index (of rises and drops within the quantity left per tooth). This marks the primary 12 months the real-world market has outperformed the tooth fairy.
Tooth costs have nonetheless seen large positive factors within the twenty first Century. In 2000, a tooth went for rather less than $2, that means it has seen a acquire of greater than 150% in that point.
Curious what the tooth fairy pays in different international locations? (Spoiler: Youngsters in different international locations are doing higher than American youngsters.) Right here’s the present common.
Japan – ¥ 752 ($5.12)
Eire – € 4.80 ($5.62)
Spain – € 4.80 ($5.62)
England – £ 3.97 ($5.39)
Canada – $ 7.13 ($5.17)
Brazil – R$ 28.68 ($5.31)
Costa Rica – ₡ 2535.44 ($5.02)
