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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018

2018, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018 covers 185 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 16.36955; Sudan is lowest, at 0.18166. The middle country reads 0.47049. Against 2017, 185 values changed (141 up, 44 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2018

HighestVenezuela

16.36955

LowestSudan

0.18166

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
VenezuelaVENSouth America16.36955ExtrapolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.36745ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.34040ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1.27747ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedOutlier
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.26374ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.24019ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.15853ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean1.12729ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedOutlier
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.11119ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.07199ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia1.06448ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.06088ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.03598ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean1.03147ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.01022ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1.00875ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.98227ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.97666ExtrapolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.96893ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.94720ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
YemenYEMWestern Asia0.93858ExtrapolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.90615ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.90365ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.90097ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.89492ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Venezuela16.36955
  2. Bermuda1.36745
  3. Iceland1.34040
  4. Cayman Islands1.27747
  5. Barbados1.26374

Lowest

  1. Sudan0.18166
  2. Egypt0.18810
  3. Iran0.23305
  4. Uzbekistan0.23440
  5. Azerbaijan0.25251

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.47049. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 141 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Zimbabwe0.40877 → 0.75176+0.34300
  • Yemen0.62054 → 0.93858+0.31805
  • Syria0.33737 → 0.56724+0.22987
  • Barbados1.15329 → 1.26374+0.11045
  • Ireland0.97257 → 1.06088+0.08831

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 2018.

  • 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: Extrapolated, ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolated, ICP PPP timeseries: 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) (2018). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2018

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018?

Venezuela, at 16.36955, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018 cover?

185.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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