Purchasing Power Parities - Publications

Purchasing power parities (PPPs) are calculated for Member countries at regular intervals. Data are presented for all OECD Member countries for GDP as a whole and for over 50 expenditure categories using benchmark years. Analytical tables compare PPPs, price levels and real expenditure between countries. Four publications are available:

• PPPs and Real Expenditures, 2005 Benchmark Year (2007 Edition) presents purchasing power parities and associated estimates of real expenditure on GDP for 55 countries: the 46 countries that participated in the 2005 round of the Eurostat-OECD Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Programme and the 10 countries that participated in the CIS Comparison Programme for 2005. The Russian Federation participated in both programmes and provided the link between the two comparisons (click here to order the book).
  
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• PPPs and Real Expenditures, 2002 Benchmark Year (2004 Edition) presents the purchasing power parities and associated estimates of real expenditure on GDP calculated for the 2002 round of the Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme.  It includes data for all OECD and EU countries plus Israel and the Russian Federation. The data are based on price and expenditure data for 2002 and have been calculated using the EKS aggregation method.  International comparisons of price levels and real GDP can be made using the measures presented in this publication and its related database (Click here to order the book).

• PPPs and Real Expenditures - 1999 Benchmark Year presents several EKS and GK results of a multilateral comparison of the 30 OECD Member countries and 13 non-Member countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovenia and Ukraine. (Click here to order the book).

• PPPs and Real Expenditures 1996 presents several EKS and GK results of a multilateral comparison of 28 OECD Member countries and four non-Member countries (Israel, Russian Federation, Slovenia and Slovak Republic). ( Click here to order book ).

• Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures - EKS Results - Volume I - 1993 covers a multilateral comparison of the 24 countries which were Members of the OECD in 1993. ( Click here to order book ).

• Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures - GK Results - Volume II - 1993 covers a multilateral comparison of the 24 countries which were Members of the OECD in 1993. ( Click here to order book ).