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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970

1970, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970 covers 158 countries. Aruba is highest, at 0.584857; Brunei is lowest, at 0.014066. The middle country reads 0.105990. Against 1969, 114 values changed (85 up, 29 down), 44 countries joined.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1970

HighestAruba

0.584857

LowestBrunei

0.014066

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, 1970, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 158 countries · select a heading to sort

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
ArubaABWCaribbean0.584857ExtrapolatedOutlier
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.482387ExtrapolatedOutlier
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa0.421548ExtrapolatedOutlier
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.399122ExtrapolatedOutlier
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.295930ExtrapolatedOutlier
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0.271168ExtrapolatedOutlier
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia0.238884ExtrapolatedRegular
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.226187ExtrapolatedRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.202035ExtrapolatedRegular
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean0.200061ExtrapolatedRegular
BahamasBHSCaribbean0.192814ExtrapolatedRegular
RomaniaROUEastern Europe0.188930ExtrapolatedRegular
CyprusCYPWestern Asia0.177787ExtrapolatedRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.177256ExtrapolatedRegular
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe0.176930ExtrapolatedRegular
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa0.176044ExtrapolatedRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.172492ExtrapolatedRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.172145BenchmarkRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.166773ExtrapolatedRegular
GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.165512BenchmarkRegular
ChinaCHNEastern Asia0.163570ExtrapolatedRegular
IsraelISRWestern Asia0.163431ExtrapolatedRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.163090ExtrapolatedRegular
GuyanaGUYSouth America0.163028ExtrapolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.161710ExtrapolatedRegular

02In 1970

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Aruba0.584857
  2. Mozambique0.482387
  3. Guinea-Bissau0.421548
  4. Turks and Caicos Islands0.399122
  5. Argentina0.295930

Lowest

  1. Brunei0.014066
  2. United Arab Emirates0.017382
  3. Oman0.021413
  4. Vietnam0.021423
  5. Qatar0.029242

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.105990. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +44 / −0countries joined / left
  • 114values changed, of 114 in both
  • 85 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Aruba+ Angola+ Anguilla+ Albania+ United Arab Emirates+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bulgaria+ Bahrain+ Bahamas+ Belize+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Bhutan+ Cayman Islands+ Djibouti+ Dominica+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Hungary+ Iraq+ Cambodia+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Kuwait+ Laos+ Lebanon+ Saint Lucia+ Macau+ Maldives+ Mongolia+ Montserrat+ Oman+ Poland+ Palestine+ Qatar+ Saudi Arabia+ Sudan+ Somalia+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Suriname+ Eswatini+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ British Virgin Islands+ Vietnam

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 1970.

  • Which end is better

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 158 countries has every column.

  • Some readings carry a flag

    GGDC marks readings it considers estimates or provisional. The flags in this file: Extrapolated, Benchmark.

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) (1970). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1970

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07Questions

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest price level (cost of living) in Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970?

Aruba, at 0.584857, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970 cover?

158.

Where can I download Price Level of Household Consumption, 1970?

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, 1970 the newest?

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

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