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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983

1983, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983 covers 158 countries. Syria is highest, at 0.93893; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.04722. The middle country reads 0.28182. Against 1982, 158 values changed (72 up, 86 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1983

HighestSyria

0.93893

LowestVietnam

0.04722

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, 1983, 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, 1983: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.93893InterpolatedOutlier
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.87387InterpolatedOutlier
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.80869InterpolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.71325ExtrapolatedOutlier
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.60313ExtrapolatedRegular
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.58591ExtrapolatedOutlier
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.54816InterpolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.54758InterpolatedRegular
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa0.51913InterpolatedRegular
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.51397ExtrapolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.50856ExtrapolatedOutlier
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.49229InterpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.49079InterpolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.47621ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.47523ExtrapolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.47256ExtrapolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.47021ExtrapolatedRegular
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa0.45480InterpolatedRegular
VenezuelaVENSouth America0.45425InterpolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.44378InterpolatedRegular
JordanJORWestern Asia0.42750ExtrapolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.42590ExtrapolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.42327ExtrapolatedRegular
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.42166ExtrapolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.41954InterpolatedRegular

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Syria0.93893
  2. Nigeria0.87387
  3. Iran0.80869
  4. Bermuda0.71325
  5. Bahrain0.60313

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.04722
  2. Equatorial Guinea0.10559
  3. Sudan0.12380
  4. Bangladesh0.13298
  5. Guinea0.13445

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.28182. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 72 · 86rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Uruguay0.35555 → 0.23263−0.12292
  • Zimbabwe0.34292 → 0.25585−0.08706
  • Zambia0.53942 → 0.45480−0.08462
  • Brazil0.28846 → 0.21764−0.07082
  • Lebanon0.47109 → 0.40455−0.06654

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 1983.

  • 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: Interpolated, Extrapolated.

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) (1983). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1983

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983?

Syria, at 0.93893, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1983?

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, 1983 the newest?

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

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