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Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021

2021, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021 covers 185 countries. Venezuela is highest, at 31.07890; Syria is lowest, at 0.21921. The middle country reads 0.47401. Against 2020, 185 values changed (167 up, 18 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 2021

HighestVenezuela

31.07890

LowestSyria

0.21921

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
VenezuelaVENSouth America31.07890ExtrapolatedOutlier
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.45057ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean1.33723BenchmarkOutlier
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.32504BenchmarkRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America1.29879BenchmarkRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.21455BenchmarkRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia1.21397BenchmarkRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean1.17961ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedOutlier
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.14688BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.13586BenchmarkRegular
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.13094BenchmarkRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.11896BenchmarkRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean1.09990ICP PPP timeseries: extrapolatedRegular
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.08566BenchmarkRegular
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1.05321BenchmarkRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia1.02134BenchmarkRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.01696BenchmarkRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.01571BenchmarkRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.97035BenchmarkRegular
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.96996BenchmarkRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.96505BenchmarkRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.96305ExtrapolatedRegular
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.90177BenchmarkRegular
BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.89218BenchmarkRegular
FranceFRAWestern Europe0.88161BenchmarkRegular

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Venezuela31.07890
  2. Barbados1.45057
  3. Cayman Islands1.33723
  4. Switzerland1.32504
  5. Bermuda1.29879

Lowest

  1. Syria0.21921
  2. Pakistan0.25196
  3. India0.25415
  4. Egypt0.25583
  5. Uzbekistan0.25847

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.47401. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 167 · 18rose · 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 2021.

  • 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, Benchmark, ICP PPP timeseries: benchmark or 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) (2021). Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/2021

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021?

Venezuela, at 31.07890, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021 cover?

185.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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