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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977

1977, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977 covers 158 countries. Jordan is highest, at 0.53958; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.03400. The middle country reads 0.20197. Against 1976, 158 values changed (136 up, 22 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1977

HighestJordan

0.53958

LowestVietnam

0.03400

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, 1977, 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, 1977: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
JordanJORWestern Asia0.53958ExtrapolatedRegular
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.53907ExtrapolatedOutlier
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.53431ExtrapolatedRegular
ArubaABWCaribbean0.47072ExtrapolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.46539ExtrapolatedOutlier
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.44528ExtrapolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.44170ExtrapolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.43053ExtrapolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.41954ExtrapolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.39148ExtrapolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.37769ExtrapolatedRegular
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.37670ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.36966InterpolatedRegular
LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.35383ExtrapolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.34162ExtrapolatedRegular
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.33971ExtrapolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.33553InterpolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.33176InterpolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.33094ExtrapolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.32827ExtrapolatedRegular
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa0.32276ExtrapolatedRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.31880InterpolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.31374InterpolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.30978ExtrapolatedRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.30151InterpolatedRegular

02In 1977

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Jordan0.53958
  2. Mozambique0.53907
  3. Guinea-Bissau0.53431
  4. Aruba0.47072
  5. Turks and Caicos Islands0.46539

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.03400
  2. Equatorial Guinea0.06675
  3. Brunei0.07069
  4. Guinea0.08896
  5. Liberia0.09711

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.20197. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031976 → 1977

Since 1976

What changed between 1976 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 136 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Jordan0.29072 → 0.53958+0.24887
  • Zambia0.19908 → 0.27666+0.07758
  • Syria0.15418 → 0.21383+0.05966
  • Iran0.17806 → 0.23769+0.05963
  • Iceland0.32432 → 0.37769+0.05337

Fell most

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 1977.

  • 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) (1977). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977 [data set], describing 1977. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1977

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977?

Jordan, at 0.53958, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977 describe?

1977.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1977?

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, 1977 the newest?

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

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