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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005

2005, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005 covers 184 countries. Zimbabwe is highest, at 1.31803; Myanmar is lowest, at 0.12220. The middle country reads 0.38593. Against 2004, 182 values changed (142 up, 40 down), 2 countries joined.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2005

HighestZimbabwe

1.31803

LowestMyanmar

0.12220

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, 2005, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 184 countries · select a heading to sort

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.31803InterpolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.25884InterpolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.18206BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.08743BenchmarkRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.08276BenchmarkRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.06207BenchmarkRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.97659ExtrapolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.94931BenchmarkRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.94607BenchmarkRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.92061BenchmarkRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.91201BenchmarkRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.88224BenchmarkRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.84849ExtrapolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.84813ExtrapolatedOutlier
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.84370BenchmarkRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.83323BenchmarkRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.81859BenchmarkRegular
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.80564BenchmarkRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.80488BenchmarkRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.79456BenchmarkRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.79402BenchmarkRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.79138BenchmarkRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.78589BenchmarkRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.72659BenchmarkRegular
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa0.72462ExtrapolatedRegular

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Zimbabwe1.31803
  2. Bermuda1.25884
  3. Iceland1.18206
  4. Norway1.08743
  5. Denmark1.08276

Lowest

  1. Myanmar0.12220
  2. Tajikistan0.14781
  3. Uzbekistan0.16738
  4. Iran0.16950
  5. Kyrgyzstan0.17364

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.38593. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 182values changed, of 182 in both
  • 142 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Seychelles0.87223 → 0.72462−0.14761
  • Syria0.41853 → 0.28643−0.13210
  • Nigeria0.39437 → 0.31473−0.07964
  • Comoros0.49031 → 0.43075−0.05956
  • Bahrain0.59482 → 0.54471−0.05011
+ Curaçao+ Sint Maarten

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 2005.

  • Which end is better

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 184 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) (2005). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2005

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005?

Zimbabwe, at 1.31803, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005 cover?

184.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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