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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974

1974, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974 covers 158 countries. Guinea-Bissau is highest, at 0.62882; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.02769. The middle country reads 0.16322. Against 1973, 158 values changed (145 up, 13 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1974

HighestGuinea-Bissau

0.62882

LowestVietnam

0.02769

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, 1974, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 158 countries · select a heading to sort

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.62882ExtrapolatedOutlier
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.60593ExtrapolatedOutlier
ArubaABWCaribbean0.52129ExtrapolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.43969ExtrapolatedOutlier
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia0.42146ExtrapolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.36100ExtrapolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.34554ExtrapolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.34298ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.32807ExtrapolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.31425ExtrapolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.30961ExtrapolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.29086ExtrapolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.28682ExtrapolatedRegular
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean0.28389ExtrapolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.28344ExtrapolatedRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia0.28305ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.27096ExtrapolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.26966InterpolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.26755ExtrapolatedRegular
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0.26607ExtrapolatedRegular
CyprusCYPWestern Asia0.26488ExtrapolatedRegular
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa0.25432ExtrapolatedRegular
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.25025ExtrapolatedRegular
GuyanaGUYSouth America0.24402ExtrapolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.24259InterpolatedRegular

02In 1974

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Guinea-Bissau0.62882
  2. Mozambique0.60593
  3. Aruba0.52129
  4. Turks and Caicos Islands0.43969
  5. Maldives0.42146

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.02769
  2. Oman0.05220
  3. Brunei0.05840
  4. Equatorial Guinea0.06402
  5. Guinea0.07240

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.16322. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 145 · 13rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Niger0.18478 → 0.15654−0.02824
  • Chile0.22521 → 0.20573−0.01948
  • Aruba0.54023 → 0.52129−0.01893
  • Romania0.22415 → 0.20890−0.01525
  • Mozambique0.61604 → 0.60593−0.01011

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1974.

  • Which end is better

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 158 countries has every column.

  • Some readings carry a flag

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

05The files

Download and cite

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) (1974). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1974

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974?

Guinea-Bissau, at 0.62882, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974 describe?

1974.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1974?

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, 1974 the newest?

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

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