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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016

2016, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016 covers 185 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 4.55101; Ukraine is lowest, at 0.20921. The middle country reads 0.43229. Against 2015, 185 values changed (79 up, 106 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2016

HighestVenezuela

4.55101

LowestUkraine

0.20921

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, 2016, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 185 countries · select a heading to sort

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
VenezuelaVENSouth America4.55101ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.39074ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.21217ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1.18832ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedOutlier
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.16474ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.11391ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.05855ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.05703ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean1.05173ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedOutlier
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.98059ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.97012ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.95718ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.95434ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.94578ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.94269ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia0.93724ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.92662ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.92515ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.91040ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.90820ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
AnguillaAIACaribbean0.90538ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.86311ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.84434ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.82994ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.82941ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Venezuela4.55101
  2. Bermuda1.39074
  3. Switzerland1.21217
  4. Cayman Islands1.18832
  5. Iceland1.16474

Lowest

  1. Ukraine0.20921
  2. Syria0.20938
  3. Azerbaijan0.22678
  4. Egypt0.22898
  5. Madagascar0.23722

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.43229. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 79 · 106rose · 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 2016.

  • Which end is better

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 185 countries has every column.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    GGDC marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolated, ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolated, 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) (2016). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2016

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016?

Venezuela, at 4.55101, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016 cover?

185.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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