Dataset · GGDC
Price Level of Household Consumption
64 years, 1960–2023 · 185 countries
The price level of household consumption says how expensive a country is: what the things households buy cost there, converted at market exchange rates, compared with prices in the United States. A value of 0.5 means a basket of consumer goods and services costs about half what the same basket cost in the US in 2021; above 1, more.
This site holds every year from 1960 to 2023, read from GGDC’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Price Level of Household Consumption · the file
- Newest
- Price Level of Household Consumption, 2023
- Held
- 64 years · 10,536 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0164 years
Every year
Every year comes from GGDC’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2023Newest | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2022 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2019 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2015 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2014 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2013 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Price Level of Household Consumption, 2012 | 185 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 64 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: consumption-price-level-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 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, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 185 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 185 | 0 | |
Price level of household consumption (US output price level in 2021 = 1)consumption_price_levelHeadline | The headline figure: Price level of household consumption (US output price level in 2021 = 1). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.17743 | 185 | 0 | |
Price data (PWT i_cig)observation_statusFlag | The Penn World Table’s note on where that year’s relative prices come from: an international price survey (benchmark), an interpolation between surveys, or an extrapolation from one. | Text | — | 1 | 0 | |
Price-level outlier (PWT i_outlier)price_outlierLabel | Whether the Penn World Table treats the country’s price level that year as an outlier (“Outlier”) or not (“Regular”). | Text | — | 2 | 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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03185 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.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 |
| Americas | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| Asia | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| All | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 185 |
The newest 12 of 64 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2008
+ South Sudan
- 2005
+ Curaçao
+ Sint Maarten
- 1990
+ Armenia
+ Azerbaijan
+ Bosnia and Herzegovina
+ Belarus
+ Czechia
+ Estonia
+ Georgia
+ Croatia
+ Kazakhstan
+ Kyrgyzstan
+ Lithuania
+ Latvia
+ Moldova
+ North Macedonia
+ Montenegro
+ Russia
+ Serbia
+ Slovakia
+ Slovenia
+ Tajikistan
+ Turkmenistan
+ Ukraine
+ Uzbekistan
- 1989
+ Yemen
- 1970
+ Aruba
+ Angola
+ Anguilla
+ Albania
+ United Arab Emirates
+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Bulgaria
+ Bahrain
+ Bahamas
+ Belize
+ Bermuda
+ Brunei
+ Bhutan
+ Cayman Islands
+ Djibouti
+ Dominica
+ Grenada
+ Guyana
+ Hungary
+ Iraq
+ Cambodia
+ Saint Kitts and Nevis
+ Kuwait
+ Laos
+ Lebanon
+ Saint Lucia
+ Macau
+ Maldives
+ Mongolia
+ Montserrat
+ Oman
+ Poland
+ Palestine
+ Qatar
+ Saudi Arabia
+ Sudan
+ Somalia
+ São Tomé and Príncipe
+ Suriname
+ Eswatini
+ Turks and Caicos Islands
+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
+ British Virgin Islands
+ Vietnam
- 1964
+ Liberia
- 1962
+ Myanmar
- 1961
+ Sierra Leone
Not in this dataset · 40 places this site covers
GGDC 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)
2 · Their file
Penn World Table 11.0 — price level of household consumption, 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
64 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as consumption-price-level-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 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.
From Penn World Table 11.0 (column pl_c), published by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre. The file also carries the table's own flags: whether each year's prices come from an international price survey or are extrapolated from one, and whether the country's price level is treated as an outlier.
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: Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC), Price Level of Household Consumption, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level
The publisher’s own citation: Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2015), "The Next Generation of the Penn World Table", American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150–3182. Penn World Table version 11.0, www.ggdc.net/pwt.
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
Price Level of Household Consumption by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
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07Questions
Price Level of Household Consumption: questions and answers
What is the Price Level of Household Consumption?
The price level of household consumption says how expensive a country is: what the things households buy cost there, converted at market exchange rates, compared with prices in the United States. A value of 0.5 means a basket of consumer goods and services costs about half what the same basket cost in the US in 2021; above 1, more.
Which years of the Price Level of Household Consumption can I download?
All 64, from 1960 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does GGDC rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to GGDC. The licence text is linked on this page.