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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017

2017, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017 covers 185 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 19.92844; Egypt is lowest, at 0.16851. The middle country reads 0.44317. Against 2016, 185 values changed (156 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2017

HighestVenezuela

19.92844

LowestEgypt

0.16851

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
VenezuelaVENSouth America19.92844ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.41919BenchmarkRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.30439BenchmarkRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1.24315BenchmarkOutlier
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.20494BenchmarkRegular
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.15329BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.10767BenchmarkRegular
AnguillaAIACaribbean1.10311BenchmarkRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean1.07533BenchmarkOutlier
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.06547BenchmarkRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.03273BenchmarkRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.01417BenchmarkRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia1.00999BenchmarkRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.98592BenchmarkRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.97257BenchmarkRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.97020BenchmarkRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.96555BenchmarkRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.96133BenchmarkRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.94218BenchmarkRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.93467BenchmarkRegular
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.90709BenchmarkOutlier
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.88539BenchmarkRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.87903BenchmarkRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.85794BenchmarkRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.84966BenchmarkRegular

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Venezuela19.92844
  2. Bermuda1.41919
  3. Iceland1.30439
  4. Cayman Islands1.24315
  5. Switzerland1.20494

Lowest

  1. Egypt0.16851
  2. Ukraine0.23344
  3. Sudan0.23348
  4. Kyrgyzstan0.24221
  5. Azerbaijan0.24565

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.44317. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 156 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Venezuela4.55101 → 19.92844+15.37744
  • Anguilla0.90538 → 1.10311+0.19773
  • Yemen0.47557 → 0.62054+0.14497
  • Iceland1.16474 → 1.30439+0.13965
  • Syria0.20938 → 0.33737+0.12799

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 2017.

  • 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, Benchmark, Extrapolated, ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolated, 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) (2017). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2017

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017?

Venezuela, at 19.92844, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017 cover?

185.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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