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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984

1984, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984 covers 158 countries. Syria is highest, at 1.08821; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.06719. The middle country reads 0.26601. Against 1983, 158 values changed (74 up, 84 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1984

HighestSyria

1.08821

LowestVietnam

0.06719

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, 1984, 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, 1984: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
SyriaSYRWestern Asia1.08821InterpolatedOutlier
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.93650InterpolatedOutlier
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.89235InterpolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.75123ExtrapolatedOutlier
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.62351ExtrapolatedOutlier
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.61588ExtrapolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.54705InterpolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.52816InterpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.51773ExtrapolatedOutlier
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.51318InterpolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.51076ExtrapolatedRegular
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa0.50008InterpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.49324InterpolatedRegular
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.49220ExtrapolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.48678ExtrapolatedRegular
JordanJORWestern Asia0.47864ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.47302ExtrapolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.44347ExtrapolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.43756ExtrapolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.43273ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.42922InterpolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.42790InterpolatedRegular
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.42518ExtrapolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.41836ExtrapolatedRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.41632InterpolatedRegular

02In 1984

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Syria1.08821
  2. Nigeria0.93650
  3. Iran0.89235
  4. Bermuda0.75123
  5. Mozambique0.62351

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.06719
  2. Equatorial Guinea0.09964
  3. DR Congo0.11766
  4. Guinea0.13933
  5. Burkina Faso0.14339

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.26601. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 74 · 84rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Lebanon0.40455 → 0.19672−0.20783
  • Jamaica0.37891 → 0.23562−0.14329
  • Zambia0.45480 → 0.31385−0.14095
  • Venezuela0.45425 → 0.33011−0.12414
  • Bahamas0.47256 → 0.36438−0.10817

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 1984.

  • 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) (1984). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1984

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984?

Syria, at 1.08821, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984 describe?

1984.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1984?

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, 1984 the newest?

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

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