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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006

2006, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006 covers 184 countries. Bermuda is highest, at 1.29817; Myanmar is lowest, at 0.12584. The middle country reads 0.40173. Against 2005, 184 values changed (161 up, 23 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2006

HighestBermuda

1.29817

LowestMyanmar

0.12584

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.29817InterpolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.15216BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.11579BenchmarkRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.10135BenchmarkRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.07295BenchmarkRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.98935ExtrapolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.98588BenchmarkRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.97130BenchmarkRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.94447BenchmarkRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.93540ExtrapolatedRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.90310BenchmarkRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.90201ExtrapolatedOutlier
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.87812BenchmarkRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.86356BenchmarkRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.85916InterpolatedRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.85603BenchmarkRegular
ItalyITASouthern Europe0.82802BenchmarkRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.82475BenchmarkRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.81580InterpolatedRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.81409BenchmarkRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.81400InterpolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.81355BenchmarkRegular
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa0.79587ExtrapolatedRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.74725InterpolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.74127InterpolatedRegular

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Bermuda1.29817
  2. Iceland1.15216
  3. Norway1.11579
  4. Denmark1.10135
  5. Switzerland1.07295

Lowest

  1. Myanmar0.12584
  2. Tajikistan0.17091
  3. Kyrgyzstan0.18494
  4. Uzbekistan0.18785
  5. Iran0.18892

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.40173. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 184 in both
  • 161 · 23rose · 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 2006.

  • 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) (2006). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2006

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006?

Bermuda, at 1.29817, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006 cover?

184.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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