PURCHASING POWER PARITIES
| Country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 b | 2006 | 2007* | 2008* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU-25 | 1.01107 | 1.01151 | 1.01185 | 1.01243 | 1.01308 | 1.01184 | 1.01217 | 1.01172 | 1.01325 |
| EU-27 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Euro area 16 (BE, DE, IE, GR, ES, FR, IT, LU, NL, AT, PT, SI, FI, CY, MT, SK) 2 | 1.00949 | 1.01331 | 1.01505 | 1.03363 | 1.03392 | 1.02553 | 1.02088 | 1.01526 | 1.03873 |
| Austria | 1.03503 | 1.06811 | 1.04788 | 1.04649 | 1.03764 | 1.05827 | 1.05147 | 1.06509 | 1.09171 |
| Belgium | 1.02435 | 1.03118 | 1.01222 | 1.03931 | 1.06387 | 1.07403 | 1.08402 | 1.09415 | 1.11501 |
| Bulgaria | 0.61936 | 0.650697 | 0.651038 | 0.659384 | 0.684698 | 0.715227 | 0.745494 | 0.787331 | 0.846804 |
| UK | 0.731202 | 0.729706 | 0.73426 | 0.758128 | 0.75057 | 0.759524 | 0.769373 | 0.789394 | 0.809735 |
| Germany | 1.1117 | 1.11254 | 1.1019 | 1.0854 | 1.06392 | 1.03496 | 1.0281 | 1.02367 | 1.04849 |
| Greece | 0.779436 | 0.781184 | 0.772099 | 0.814757 | 0.825368 | 0.852485 | 0.858374 | 0.875527 | 0.900237 |
| Denmark | 9.66808 | 9.86001 | 9.71272 | 10.099 | 9.9727 | 10.2557 | 10.222 | 10.2579 | 10.5059 |
| Estonia | 8.18789 | 8.68678 | 8.73865 | 8.89777 | 9.02168 | 9.3772 | 9.99233 | 10.6247 | 11.1035 |
| Ireland | 1.10589 | 1.15624 | 1.17445 | 1.19971 | 1.1938 | 1.20611 | 1.20826 | 1.1803 | 1.20554 |
| Spain | 0.843995 | 0.861383 | 0.858 | 0.890581 | 0.90091 | 0.913223 | 0.903121 | 0.896683 | 0.92775 |
| Italy | 0.939466 | 0.940482 | 0.989057 | 1.01009 | 1.03569 | 1.03468 | 1.02315 | 1.00988 | 1.02679 |
| Cyprus | 0.842232 | 0.842731 | 0.845976 | 0.882882 | 0.874589 | 0.868956 | 0.871478 | 0.868907 | 0.904872 |
| Latvia | 0.286329 | 0.289389 | 0.291933 | 0.306159 | 0.325153 | 0.360523 | 0.39989 | 0.468082 | 0.499921 |
| Lithuania | 1.74432 | 1.70261 | 1.66178 | 1.62121 | 1.66997 | 1.77482 | 1.86581 | 1.979 | 2.13352 |
| Luxembourg | 1.08054 | 1.10411 | 1.09313 | 1.11422 | 1.09492 | 1.13766 | 1.12257 | 1.1386 | 1.16204 |
| Malta | 0.639472 | 0.666658 | 0.663303 | 0.677994 | 0.671941 | 0.677564 | 0.689881 | 0.698719 | 0.722751 |
| Netherlands | 1.0262 | 1.05527 | 1.05518 | 1.09657 | 1.07876 | 1.06991 | 1.06576 | 1.05479 | 1.07896 |
| Poland | 2.11674 | 2.16669 | 2.13986 | 2.178 | 2.20871 | 2.23153 | 2.26396 | 2.27651 | 2.36029 |
| Portugal | 0.804435 | 0.821644 | 0.8284 | 0.835216 | 0.849786 | 0.817018 | 0.812484 | 0.816642 | 0.822583 |
| Romania | 0.72726 | 0.957082 | 1.15893 | 1.39954 | 1.54419 | 1.69893 | 1.76003 | 1.86212 | 1.98691 |
| Slovakia | 0.60437 | 0.607437 | 0.617447 | 0.656499 | 0.679464 | 0.675696 | 0.681476 | 0.676769 | 0.686509 |
| Slovenia | 0.611316 | 0.65809 | 0.688386 | 0.727503 | 0.724804 | 0.730188 | 0.74616 | 0.775534 | 0.805708 |
| Hungary | 124.037 | 128.842 | 134.398 | 142.572 | 149.881 | 153.527 | 157.742 | 161.973 | 163.808 |
| Finland | 1.14383 | 1.1779 | 1.1737 | 1.19545 | 1.1573 | 1.16671 | 1.16623 | 1.15599 | 1.18326 |
| France | 1.07966 | 1.06954 | 1.05872 | 1.10943 | 1.11542 | 1.10236 | 1.10824 | 1.09998 | 1.12348 |
| Czeck Rep. | 16.3403 | 16.56 | 16.7516 | 16.6027 | 16.9583 | 17.0921 | 17.2328 | 17.1687 | 17.5534 |
| Sweden | 10.5027 | 10.886 | 10.9405 | 11.0438 | 10.8046 | 11.1968 | 11.1514 | 10.9488 | 11.3239 |
| EU Candidate ñountries | |||||||||
| FYROM | 22.7607 | 23.1417 | 23.3776 | 23.4159 | 22.6542 | 21.9546 | 21.9302 | 22.5132 | 23.8603 |
| Turkey | 0.325134 | 0.498491 | 0.716703 | 0.914861 | 0.963735 | 0.991696 | 1.04026 | 1.08037 | 1.17106 |
| Croatia | 4.23581 | 4.32333 | 4.37585 | 4.54471 | 4.58039 | 4.6745 | 4.78613 | 4.7223 | 4.98379 |
| Other European EFTA countries | |||||||||
| Island | 96.9335 | 103.55 | 106.86 | 111.776 | 111.838 | 118.289 | 131.586 | 138.387 | 152.884 |
| Norway | 10.4952 | 10.6886 | 10.6591 | 10.7797 | 10.6654 | 10.6214 | 10.6694 | 10.8177 | 11.1264 |
| Switzerland | 2.12858 | 2.142 | 2.07203 | 2.10121 | 2.08134 | 2.08067 | 2.03618 | 1.96808 | 2.00788 |
| Balkan countries | |||||||||
| Albania | . | . | . | . | . | 52.1014 | 51.212 | 52.6818 | 52.9449 |
| Bosnia amnd Herzegovina | . | . | . | . | . | 0.857415 | 0.875195 | 0.898054 | 0.923174 |
| Serbia | . | . | . | . | . | 31.7152 | 34.4207 | 37.6563 | 41.0417 |
| Montenegro | . | . | . | . | . | 0.419674 | 0.407644 | 0.428366 | 0.45729 |
Source: EUROSTAT, New Cronos Database; 18.12.2009; |
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| 1 The purchasing power parities (PPPs) measure the price ratios in the partner countries and are applied to convert the economic indicators to an artificial common currency called Purchasing power standard (PPS), which equalizes the purchasing power of different national currencies, i.e. 1 PPS buys the same given average volume of goods and services in all countries, whereas different amounts of national currency units are needed to buy this volume of goods and services, depending on the national price level. | |||||||||
| 2 - Euro area (EA11-2000, EA12-2006, EA13-2007, EA15-2008, EA16-2009) | |||||||||
| b - break in time series: up to 2005 calculations are based on 33 countries' data - incl. Croatia and FYROM, 2006;2007;2008 - based on 37 countries' data | |||||||||
| * Preliminary data | |||||||||
Published on 08.01.2010
