World Development Indicators
Price levels across countries
Compare published World Bank GDP price levels relative to the United States (USA = 1). This is not a household cost-of-living index.
Country and area ranking
Source
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, Price level index (GDP) (PA.NUS.GDP.PLI), CC BY 4.0. LifeNaviHub reproduces the published values and does not invent missing observations.
Price level index (GDP) · PA.NUS.GDP.PLI · Former code: PA.NUS.PPPC.RF
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Methodology
The price level index (PLI) is the ratio of a purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor to the corresponding market exchange rate between two countries, expressed relative to a base country that is set equal to 100. For this series the base country is the United States. It provides a measure of the differences in price level between the country and the United States by indicating the number of units of the common currency (US dollars) needed to buy the same volume of the aggregation level in each country. At the level of GDP, the price level ratio provides a measure of the differences in the general price levels of countries. LifeNaviHub stores values as index (USA = 1) by dividing the published Price level index (GDP) (USA = 100) by 100. This preserves the retired PA.NUS.PPPC.RF USA = 1 scale. A value near 1.2 means the GDP price level is about 1.2 times the US level in PPP-to-market-rate terms — not that a household literally spends 20% more.
Upstream sources named by the World Bank
Renamed in current WDI from PA.NUS.PPPC.RF (Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor (GDP) to market exchange rate, USA = 1) to PA.NUS.GDP.PLI (Price level index (GDP), USA = 100). Values are stored as index (USA = 1) by dividing published PLI observations by 100. Archived RF shells under WDI Database Archives (source 57) are empty from the 2026 Apr cut onward. Upstream: World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB), uri: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators, publisher: World Development Indicators
This indicator compares overall national price levels using the ratio of a purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor to the market exchange rate. Values are relative to the United States set at 1. It is not a household cost-of-living index that directly measures rent, food, transport, or everyday spending.