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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999

1999, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999 covers 182 countries. Bermuda is highest, at 1.16166; Equatorial Guinea is lowest, at 0.10300. The middle country reads 0.30593. Against 1998, 182 values changed (65 up, 117 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1999

HighestBermuda

1.16166

LowestEquatorial Guinea

0.10300

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, 1999, 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, 1999: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.16166InterpolatedOutlier
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.98816BenchmarkRegular
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.87624InterpolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.81897BenchmarkRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.78809ExtrapolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.78341BenchmarkRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.77157BenchmarkRegular
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.76667InterpolatedRegular
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa0.75734ExtrapolatedRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.74339ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.74126BenchmarkRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.73641BenchmarkRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.71442BenchmarkRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.70669InterpolatedRegular
LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.70289InterpolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.69871InterpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.66655ExtrapolatedOutlier
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.66525BenchmarkRegular
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.66398InterpolatedRegular
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa0.64875ExtrapolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.64659BenchmarkRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.63800BenchmarkRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia0.62900BenchmarkRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.62608BenchmarkRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.62154BenchmarkRegular

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bermuda1.16166
  2. Japan0.98816
  3. Syria0.87624
  4. Switzerland0.81897
  5. Cayman Islands0.78809

Lowest

  1. Equatorial Guinea0.10300
  2. Iraq0.11344
  3. Zimbabwe0.11560
  4. Kyrgyzstan0.11629
  5. Myanmar0.13638

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.30593. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 182values changed, of 182 in both
  • 65 · 117rose · 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 1999.

  • 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: Interpolated, Benchmark, 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) (1999). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1999

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999?

Bermuda, at 1.16166, of the 182 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999 cover?

182.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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