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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980

1980, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980 covers 158 countries. Guinea-Bissau is highest, at 0.65048; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.04251. The middle country reads 0.28579. Against 1979, 158 values changed (148 up, 10 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1980

HighestGuinea-Bissau

0.65048

LowestVietnam

0.04251

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, 1980, 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, 1980: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.65048ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.64742ExtrapolatedRegular
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.61757BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.57169BenchmarkRegular
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.57089ExtrapolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.56782ExtrapolatedOutlier
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.55994ExtrapolatedRegular
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa0.54574BenchmarkRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.53889BenchmarkRegular
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.53113ExtrapolatedOutlier
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.51960BenchmarkRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.51541ExtrapolatedRegular
JordanJORWestern Asia0.51434ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.51191BenchmarkRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.50506ExtrapolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.49308BenchmarkRegular
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.49255ExtrapolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.48578ExtrapolatedOutlier
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.48324InterpolatedRegular
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.47742InterpolatedRegular
LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.46048ExtrapolatedRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.45527BenchmarkRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.45174BenchmarkRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.45159BenchmarkRegular
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa0.44314BenchmarkRegular

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Guinea-Bissau0.65048
  2. Sweden0.64742
  3. Nigeria0.61757
  4. Norway0.57169
  5. Saudi Arabia0.57089

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.04251
  2. Equatorial Guinea0.09623
  3. Guinea0.10869
  4. Sri Lanka0.11956
  5. Iraq0.12817

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.28579. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 148 · 10rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

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 1980.

  • 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, Benchmark, 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) (1980). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1980

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980?

Guinea-Bissau, at 0.65048, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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