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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986

1986, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986 covers 158 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 1.087146; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.060588. The middle country reads 0.285861. Against 1985, 158 values changed (123 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1986

HighestMozambique

1.087146

LowestVietnam

0.060588

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, 1986, 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, 1986: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa1.087146ExtrapolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.805240ExtrapolatedOutlier
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.741633InterpolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.662562InterpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.642649InterpolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.609336InterpolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.595870InterpolatedRegular
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.595026ExtrapolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.590065ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.584921InterpolatedRegular
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.557838InterpolatedRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.538562InterpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.534966ExtrapolatedOutlier
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.516641ExtrapolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.515698InterpolatedRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.515151InterpolatedRegular
JordanJORWestern Asia0.505282ExtrapolatedRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.489819InterpolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.487372InterpolatedRegular
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.484857InterpolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.480034ExtrapolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.479452ExtrapolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.476300InterpolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.471271ExtrapolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.451650InterpolatedRegular

02In 1986

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mozambique1.087146
  2. Bermuda0.805240
  3. Japan0.741633
  4. Norway0.662562
  5. Finland0.642649

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.060588
  2. Myanmar0.132753
  3. Mexico0.142662
  4. Guinea0.146209
  5. Lesotho0.151325

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.285861. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 123 · 35rose · 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 1986.

  • 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) (1986). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1986

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986?

Mozambique, at 1.087146, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986 describe?

1986.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1986?

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, 1986 the newest?

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

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