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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960

1960, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960 covers 111 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 0.361459; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.024279. The middle country reads 0.084612.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1960

HighestMozambique

0.361459

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.024279

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 111 countries · select a heading to sort

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.361459ExtrapolatedOutlier
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.303851ExtrapolatedOutlier
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.242157ExtrapolatedOutlier
CyprusCYPWestern Asia0.195174ExtrapolatedRegular
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe0.177588ExtrapolatedOutlier
IsraelISRWestern Asia0.172122ExtrapolatedRegular
RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.165359ExtrapolatedRegular
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.163021ExtrapolatedOutlier
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.152313ExtrapolatedRegular
ChinaCHNEastern Asia0.147852ExtrapolatedRegular
VenezuelaVENSouth America0.144632ExtrapolatedRegular
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa0.141409ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.133241ExtrapolatedRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.132965ExtrapolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.132354ExtrapolatedRegular
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa0.131216ExtrapolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.130906ExtrapolatedRegular
SenegalSENWestern Africa0.129336ExtrapolatedRegular
PanamaPANCentral America0.129200ExtrapolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.126411ExtrapolatedRegular
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia0.122002ExtrapolatedRegular
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa0.121731ExtrapolatedRegular
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.118289ExtrapolatedRegular
BoliviaBOLSouth America0.115559ExtrapolatedRegular
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.114943ExtrapolatedRegular

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mozambique0.361459
  2. Guinea-Bissau0.303851
  3. Argentina0.242157
  4. Cyprus0.195174
  5. Malta0.177588

Lowest

  1. Equatorial Guinea0.024279
  2. Rwanda0.032393
  3. Uganda0.032503
  4. Bangladesh0.034033
  5. Barbados0.039101

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.084612. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1960.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 111 countries has every column.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    GGDC marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Extrapolated.

04The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1960). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1960

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06Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960?

Mozambique, at 0.361459, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960 describe?

1960.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960 cover?

111.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Price Level of Household Consumption, 1960 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Price Level of Household Consumption, 2023.

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