Comparative price levels

Comparative price levels of final consumption by private households including indirect taxes (EU-27 = 100)

Please be aware that this indicator has been rescaled, i.e. data is expressed in relation to EU-27 = 100. Thus, they are not comparable with previous releases.

Comparative price levels are the ratio between Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and market exchange rate for each country. PPPs are currency conversion rates that convert economic indicators expressed in national currencies to a common currency, called Purchasing Power Standard (PPS), which equalises the purchasing power of different national currencies and thus allows meaningful comparison. The ratio is shown in relation to the EU average (EU27 = 100). If the index of the comparative price levels shown for a country is higher/ lower than 100, the country concerned is relatively expensive/cheap as compared with the EU average.

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	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0 ^(b)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Euro area (17 countries)	106.8	106.7	103.3	102.1	101.5	99.9	100.4	100.5	102.9	103.1	102.1 ^(b)	101.9	101.3	103.2	105.6	104.1	104.0
Euro area (16 countries)	106.9	106.8	103.4	102.2	101.6	100.0	100.5	100.5	103.0	103.1	102.1 ^(b)	102.0	101.4	103.2	105.7	104.2	104.1
Belgium	113.7	110.2	105.9	107.5	106.8	102.0	103.2	101.6	106.6	106.8	106.4 ^(b)	107.7	107.4	110.3	112.2	111.2	111.0
Bulgaria	33.0	27.7	34.3	37.5	37.9	38.7	41.0	40.9	40.7	42.0	43.3 ^(b)	44.9	45.6	49.4	51.2	50.9	49.4
Czech Republic	41.7	43.9	44.4	47.5	46.4	48.1	50.0	57.1	54.6	55.4	58.2 ^(b)	61.4	62.4	77.3	73.0	75.6	76.5
Denmark	138.4	136.1	131.6	129.5	131.5	130.3	135.3	133.9	141.2	139.6	140.4 ^(b)	138.4	137.3	139.7	142.8	141.3	143.5
Germany	118.8	114.3	109.6	108.8	107.3	106.6	107.0	106.7	106.2	104.8	103.3 ^(b)	102.6	101.7	103.5	106.8	104.4	103.2
Estonia	41.7	49.8	50.8	54.2	56.9	57.3	61.1	60.9	62.1	63.1	64.7 ^(b)	68.5	73.4	76.7	77.2	76.3	77.9
Ireland	100.9	103.6	113.1	108.1	111.6	114.9	119.4	125.3	126.5	126.0	123.5 ^(b)	124.5	124.1	129.7	125.4	118.1	116.3
Greece	83.0	86.0	87.6	85.8	88.3	84.8	82.4	80.3	85.9	87.7	88.3 ^(b)	89.1	89.8	91.7	94.8	95.7	95.6
Spain	89.1	90.9	87.0	85.6	86.0	85.1	85.4	84.7	88.4	91.0	91.1 ^(b)	91.8	92.9	95.1	97.6	97.0	97.2
France	118.5	117.3	112.0	110.8	109.3	105.9	104.1	103.6	110.1	110.0	108.2 ^(b)	108.6	108.1	110.7	112.1	110.7	110.2
Italy	90.1	99.4	99.7	98.0	98.2	97.5	99.8	102.8	103.7	105.0	104.8 ^(b)	104.2	102.5	102.4	104.7	103.0	104.4
Cyprus	86.9	86.5	86.7	87.2	87.4	88.1	89.0	89.2	91.0	91.3	90.4 ^(b)	90.3	88.3	87.7	89.6	89.5	88.9
Latvia	38.7	42.9	47.8	49.3	52.2	58.8	59.1	57.0	54.4	56.2	57.0 ^(b)	60.8	66.6	75.0	75.9	73.2	73.8
Lithuania	31.0	36.5	43.2	45.6	46.8	52.7	54.1	54.2	52.3	53.5	54.9 ^(b)	57.4	60.0	66.0	66.9	65.0	65.8
Luxembourg	113.7	109.1	106.6	104.2	102.9	101.5	103.6	102.2	103.3	103.1	111.6 ^(b)	111.4	114.8	117.2	121.4	122.0	123.0
Hungary	43.9	44.4	46.4	45.7	47.1	49.2	53.0	57.5	58.3	62.0	63.4 ^(b)	60.7	66.7	69.4	63.1	64.6	64.4
Malta	61.9	67.2	68.7	69.5	70.5	73.3	74.8	74.6	72.0	73.2	73.0 ^(b)	74.8	75.5	77.4	77.9	77.4	77.9
Netherlands	111.3	107.5	103.4	102.2	102.7	100.1	103.0	102.9	107.8	106.2	104.7 ^(b)	104.1	102.0	104.1	107.7	108.3	108.2
Austria	115.6	112.0	107.2	105.3	104.9	101.9	104.9	103.5	103.4	103.4	102.5 ^(b)	102.0	102.6	105.1	107.8	105.3	106.4
Poland	47.6	50.7	51.8	53.6	51.9	57.9	64.8	61.2	54.5	53.3	61.1 ^(b)	62.5	61.7	69.2	58.1	61.2	59.3
Portugal	83.0	83.1	82.6	84.0	83.4	83.0	84.4	86.4	86.1	87.4	85.1 ^(b)	85.0	85.7	87.9	89.1	87.7	87.1
Romania	31.5	30.1	34.8	43.2	37.9	42.5	41.8	43.0	43.4	43.3	54.5 ^(b)	57.6	63.8	63.1	57.5	59.5	60.3
Slovenia	75.2	72.7	72.4	74.2	74.2	72.9	74.0	74.5	76.3	75.5	76.0 ^(b)	76.7	78.9	82.8	87.8	86.9	85.8
Slovakia	39.8	40.4	41.6	41.9	40.5	44.4	43.5	44.8	50.7	54.9	55.4 ^(b)	58.0	63.2	69.8	73.1	71.2	72.4
Finland	133.1	128.2	125.1	123.0	122.3	120.9	124.9	124.0	126.7	123.9	123.7 ^(b)	122.7	119.6	120.7	123.9	123.0	124.7
Sweden	125.9	135.0	131.7	127.1	126.4	127.6	119.9	121.8	123.6	121.5	119.1 ^(b)	118.5	115.6	112.9	107.5	121.8	126.4
United Kingdom	92.5	92.8	107.6	112.3	115.6	120.0	116.9	117.2	107.9	108.5	109.8 ^(b)	110.6	114.0	103.0	96.7	100.8	102.0
Iceland	116.7	118.1	120.8	124.8	126.7	144.0	128.0	134.7	138.6	137.9	153.4 ^(b)	144.7	148.9	116.8	100.1	110.7	113.7
Norway	135.7	133.3	136.6	131.0	134.3	137.7	141.9	151.3	142.2	135.3	140.7 ^(b)	139.8	137.5	140.6	139.2	150.4	155.7
Switzerland	153.3	146.8	135.8	136.5	139.8	142.6	146.4	146.9	144.0	140.9	137.6 ^(b)	134.7	125.1	128.5	137.4	147.1	160.1
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	55.5	56.3	55.7	60.3	60.0	58.4	58.7
Croatia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	64.9	66.6	68.8 ^(b)	72.6	71.9	74.1	76.2	75.9	73.3
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	43.9	44.4	43.3 ^(b)	44.5	44.6	46.3	45.3	45.4	47.2
Turkey	51.9	48.9	51.8	54.6	56.0	62.5	47.8	51.7	57.2	59.1	66.8 ^(b)	66.5	70.1	68.2	63.3	70.6	64.1
United States	88.3	90.2	100	100.7	105.6	121.1	126.2	119.8	101.6	92.9	92.6	92.7	85	81.8	88.6	92.6	88.2
Japan	186.5	161.1	159.7	147.3	173.1	198.7	178.5	156.5	136.6	129.4	120.3	110	96.5	101.9	119.3	128.2	129.7

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(b) - break in series

Source: Eurostat