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Price Level of Household Consumption, 1985

1985, as GGDC’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The price level of household consumption says how expensive a country is: what the things households buy cost there, converted at market exchange rates, compared with prices in the United States. A value of 0.5 means a basket of consumer goods and services costs about half what the same basket cost in the US in 2021; above 1, more.

Price Level of Household Consumption, 1985 covers 158 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 0.92033; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.05979. The middle country reads 0.26268. Against 1984, 158 values changed (83 up, 75 down), the same countries are covered.

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Price Level of Household Consumption · Data for 1985

HighestMozambique

0.92033

LowestVietnam

0.05979

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Price Level of Household Consumption, 1985, 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, 1985: every country, as published by Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC).
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa0.92033ExtrapolatedOutlier
BermudaBMUNorthern America0.77786ExtrapolatedOutlier
BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.59686ExtrapolatedRegular
ArgentinaARGSouth America0.56788InterpolatedRegular
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa0.55689BenchmarkRegular
NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.53944BenchmarkRegular
JapanJPNEastern Asia0.53219BenchmarkRegular
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa0.53181BenchmarkOutlier
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean0.53093ExtrapolatedRegular
JordanJORWestern Asia0.52910ExtrapolatedRegular
Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean0.52707ExtrapolatedOutlier
SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.51385InterpolatedRegular
FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.51123BenchmarkRegular
SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.48597BenchmarkRegular
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.47548ExtrapolatedRegular
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean0.46433ExtrapolatedRegular
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.45242ExtrapolatedRegular
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.44537BenchmarkRegular
United StatesUSANorthern America0.44302BenchmarkRegular
IranIRNSouthern Asia0.43479BenchmarkRegular
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.42760ExtrapolatedRegular
IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.42692ExtrapolatedRegular
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean0.42175ExtrapolatedRegular
CanadaCANNorthern America0.41303BenchmarkRegular
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia0.39913ExtrapolatedRegular

02In 1985

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mozambique0.92033
  2. Bermuda0.77786
  3. Bahrain0.59686
  4. Argentina0.56788
  5. Tanzania0.55689

Lowest

  1. Vietnam0.05979
  2. Lesotho0.13227
  3. Lebanon0.13627
  4. Chad0.13675
  5. Togo0.13840

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.26268. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 83 · 75rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from GGDC’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1985.

  • 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, Interpolated, Benchmark.

05The files

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Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) (1985). Price Level of Household Consumption, 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-price-level/1985

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