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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020

2020, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020 covers 185 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 22.955020; Sudan is lowest, at 0.168256. The middle country reads 0.447586. Against 2019, 185 values changed (95 up, 90 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2020

HighestVenezuela

22.955020

LowestSudan

0.168256

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
VenezuelaVENSouth America22.955020ExtrapolatedOutlier
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.437494ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1.315431ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.282087ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.275611ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean1.140516ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedOutlier
IsraelISRWestern Asia1.126037ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.079696ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.060619ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean1.059645ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.049396ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.048782ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia1.015207ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.011335ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.964677ExtrapolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.960136ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.950158ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.923888ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.922085ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.916705ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.892170ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.879129ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.844757ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
AnguillaAIACaribbean0.841276ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular
AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.835312ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or interpolatedRegular

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Venezuela22.955020
  2. Barbados1.437494
  3. Cayman Islands1.315431
  4. Bermuda1.282087
  5. Switzerland1.275611

Lowest

  1. Sudan0.168256
  2. Iran0.181552
  3. Pakistan0.226793
  4. Egypt0.241032
  5. Uzbekistan0.242644

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.447586. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 95 · 90rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Montserrat0.727437 → 0.584740−0.142697
  • Brazil0.534891 → 0.416494−0.118397
  • Iceland1.178305 → 1.060619−0.117686
  • Yemen0.491019 → 0.379724−0.111296
  • Slovakia0.721994 → 0.614777−0.107217

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 2020.

  • 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: 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) (2020). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2020

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020?

Venezuela, at 22.955020, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020 cover?

185.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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