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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987

1987, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987 covers 158 countries. Japan is highest, at 0.849662; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.062341. The middle country reads 0.305052. Against 1986, 158 values changed (129 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1987

HighestJapan

0.849662

LowestVietnam

0.062341

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, 1987, 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, 1987: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.849662InterpolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.841132ExtrapolatedOutlier
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.779059InterpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.761411InterpolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.722439ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.719233InterpolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.714945InterpolatedRegular
JordanJORWestern Asia0.689594ExtrapolatedRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.646527InterpolatedRegular
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.644893ExtrapolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.634082ExtrapolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.615022InterpolatedRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.610587InterpolatedRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.591120InterpolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.576895InterpolatedRegular
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.574872InterpolatedRegular
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.573088InterpolatedRegular
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa0.570775ExtrapolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.568483InterpolatedRegular
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa0.568250InterpolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.550890InterpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.544849ExtrapolatedOutlier
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.535959InterpolatedRegular
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.534880InterpolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.522034ExtrapolatedRegular

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Japan0.849662
  2. Bermuda0.841132
  3. Norway0.779059
  4. Finland0.761411
  5. Switzerland0.722439

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.062341
  2. Lebanon0.119628
  3. Zambia0.128477
  4. Myanmar0.139395
  5. Sierra Leone0.147641

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.305052. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 129 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Mozambique1.087146 → 0.421405−0.665741
  • Tanzania0.356397 → 0.223022−0.133375
  • Guyana0.338023 → 0.221863−0.116160
  • Venezuela0.380446 → 0.278764−0.101682
  • Nigeria0.444503 → 0.354962−0.089542

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 1987.

  • 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) (1987). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1987

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987?

Japan, at 0.849662, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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