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.

Additional information on Eurostat web page

	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 ^(b)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Euro area (17 countries)	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)	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	84.4	86.4	86.1	87.4	85.1 ^(b)	85.0	85.7	87.9	89.1	87.7	87.1
Romania	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	121.1	126.2	119.8	101.6	92.9	92.6	92.7	85	81.8	88.6	92.6	88.2
Japan	198.7	178.5	156.5	136.6	129.4	120.3	110	96.5	101.9	119.3	128.2	129.7

(..) - not available
(b) - break in time series

Source: Eurostat