Dataset · World Bank Group
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP)
2 years, 2017–2021 · 173 countries
Actual individual consumption per person is what people actually get to consume — what households buy plus the individual services governments and charities provide to them, such as schooling and health care — valued at purchasing power parities. The International Comparison Program treats it as a better measure of material living standards than GDP per person, which also counts investment, defence and profits that leave the country.
This site holds every year from 2017 to 2021, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) · the file
- Newest
- Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021
- Held
- 2 years · 349 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
012 years
Every year
Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2021Newest | 173 | +5 −8 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2017 | 176 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: actual-individual-consumption-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2021 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 173 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 173 | 0 | |
Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $)aic_per_capitaHeadline | The headline figure: Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $). | Number · up to 12 decimals | 688.7 DR Congo52,653.9 United Statesmiddle 12,799.6 | 173 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03181 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2017 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 50 | 52 |
| Americas | 41 | 36 |
| Asia | 43 | 43 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 |
| All | 176 | 173 |
Who joined and who left
- 2021
+ Guatemala
+ Somalia
+ South Sudan
+ Syria
+ Uzbekistan
− Bahamas
− Barbados
− Haiti
− Iran
− Myanmar
− Sint Maarten
− Turks and Caicos Islands
− British Virgin Islands
Not in this dataset · 44 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
American Samoa
AndorraChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Kosovo
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Nauru
New Caledonia
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Samoa
San Marino
Solomon IslandsSomaliland
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Yemen04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) 2021
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
2 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as actual-individual-consumption-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 12 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Read from the World Bank’s API for the 2021 cycle of the International Comparison Program, which also revised the 2017 benchmark. Regional and income-group aggregates are left out; results for European and OECD countries come from the Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme and are linked in by the ICP.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP), 2017–2021 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/actual-individual-consumption
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank (2024), Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies: Results from the 2021 International Comparison Program. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. Data: World Bank API, source 90 (ICP 2021).
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- GDP per Capita (PPP)World Bank Group · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Economic Complexity IndexGrowth Lab at Harvard University · 30 held · 1995–2024
- Liner Shipping Connectivity IndexUNCTAD · 21 held · 2006–2026
07Questions
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP): questions and answers
What is the Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP)?
Actual individual consumption per person is what people actually get to consume — what households buy plus the individual services governments and charities provide to them, such as schooling and health care — valued at purchasing power parities. The International Comparison Program treats it as a better measure of material living standards than GDP per person, which also counts investment, defence and profits that leave the country.
Which years of the Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP) can I download?
All 2, from 2017 to 2021, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.