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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990

1990, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990 covers 182 countries. Bosnia and Herzegovina is highest, at 1.01665; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.06446. The middle country reads 0.32197. Against 1989, 159 values changed (110 up, 49 down), 23 countries joined.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1990

HighestBosnia and Herzegovina

1.01665

LowestVietnam

0.06446

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, 1990, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 182 countries · select a heading to sort

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe1.01665ExtrapolatedOutlier
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.98182InterpolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.96690ExtrapolatedOutlier
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.91622InterpolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.90092InterpolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.84035InterpolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.83087ExtrapolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.81604InterpolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.77400ExtrapolatedRegular
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa0.76199InterpolatedRegular
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.72442InterpolatedRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.71544InterpolatedRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.70870InterpolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.69712InterpolatedRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.67483InterpolatedRegular
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.67180InterpolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.65494InterpolatedRegular
SpainESPSouthern Europe0.64940InterpolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.64810InterpolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.64641ExtrapolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.63575InterpolatedRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.62900InterpolatedRegular
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa0.61439ExtrapolatedRegular
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.61195InterpolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.60517ExtrapolatedRegular

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bosnia and Herzegovina1.01665
  2. Finland0.98182
  3. Bermuda0.96690
  4. Norway0.91622
  5. Sweden0.90092

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.06446
  2. Kyrgyzstan0.09368
  3. Turkmenistan0.10122
  4. Sierra Leone0.11824
  5. Azerbaijan0.14003

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.32197. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −0countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 159 in both
  • 110 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Honduras0.34568 → 0.18822−0.15746
  • Uganda0.39115 → 0.24546−0.14569
  • Iran0.57687 → 0.45136−0.12551
  • Romania0.30512 → 0.21765−0.08748
  • Lebanon0.37001 → 0.29469−0.07532
+ Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Belarus+ Czechia+ Estonia+ Georgia+ Croatia+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Lithuania+ Latvia+ Moldova+ North Macedonia+ Montenegro+ Russia+ Serbia+ Slovakia+ Slovenia+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine+ Uzbekistan

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 1990.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 182 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) (1990). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1990

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990?

Bosnia and Herzegovina, at 1.01665, of the 182 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990 cover?

182.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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