A new knowledge brief - “A comparison of different sources of purchasing power parity (PPPs) estimates” - reviews five sources of purchasing power parity (PPP) estimates and explores how they differ in terms of coverage of expenditures under gross domestic product (GDP), frequency, input data, and methodology.
The International Comparison Program (ICP) produces purchasing power parities (PPPs) and comparable price level indexes for each of its 170-plus participating economies, as well as PPP-based volumes and per capita measure of gross domestic product.
At the recent 53rd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), the Chief Statisticians of national statistical offices (NSOs) highlighted the importance of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and other International Comparison Program (ICP) results.
Purchasing Power Parities for Policy Making: a Visual Guide to Using Data from the International Comparison Program worldbank.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from worldbank.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The size of the Asia and the Pacific economy based on purchasing power parities: results from the International Comparison Program
New results from the ICP including purchasing power parities (PPP), price level indexes and PPP-based expenditures for reference year 2017 are now available at icp.worldbank.org. This blog series, edited by Edie Purdie, covers all aspects of the ICP and explores the use made of these data by researchers, policymakers, economists, data scientists and others. We encourage users to share their data applications and findings in this blog series via [email protected].
Since the publication of the 2017 International Comparison Program’s (ICP) global results for 176 economies in May 2020, the program’s regional implementing agencies have released results and analyses covering the economies participating in their respective regions. These regional programs are the building blocks of the global program, and in this series of region-focused blogs, we hig