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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996

1996, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996 covers 182 countries. Bermuda is highest, at 1.11142; Iraq is lowest, at 0.08794. The middle country reads 0.32857. Against 1995, 182 values changed (103 up, 79 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1996

HighestBermuda

1.11142

LowestIraq

0.08794

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.11142BenchmarkOutlier
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.02842BenchmarkRegular
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa1.00754ExtrapolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia1.00494BenchmarkRegular
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.99544BenchmarkOutlier
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.95278BenchmarkRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.94737BenchmarkRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.93900BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.92403BenchmarkRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.89145BenchmarkRegular
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.88218BenchmarkOutlier
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.81612BenchmarkRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.81352BenchmarkRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.79977BenchmarkRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.78271BenchmarkRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.76827BenchmarkRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.76779BenchmarkRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.74851BenchmarkRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.71746BenchmarkRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.70537ExtrapolatedRegular
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.69201BenchmarkRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.69071BenchmarkRegular
LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.68453BenchmarkRegular
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.68071BenchmarkRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia0.65908BenchmarkRegular

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bermuda1.11142
  2. Switzerland1.02842
  3. Seychelles1.00754
  4. Japan1.00494
  5. Syria0.99544

Lowest

  1. Iraq0.08794
  2. Turkmenistan0.11393
  3. Sudan0.13883
  4. Vietnam0.14864
  5. Zimbabwe0.15272

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.32857. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 182values changed, of 182 in both
  • 103 · 79rose · 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 1996.

  • 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: Benchmark, 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) (1996). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1996

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996?

Bermuda, at 1.11142, of the 182 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996 cover?

182.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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