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The International Comparison Program (ICP) was implemented as a true global initiative for the second time, with the reference year 2011. It built on well-programmed activities of a wide network of national, regional, and international institutions that engaged in methodological research, survey activities and data processing and analysis in the areas of price statistics and national accounts, and estimated purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world's principal economies. More ...
The Final Report of the ICP 2011 Purchasing Power Parities and the Real Size of World Economies (PDF | eBook I Printed) was published on October 28, 2014. The report includes the full set of detailed results and presents an in-depth analysis of volume and per capita measures with detailed information on methodology. It provides several indicators including purchasing power parities (PPPs), real expenditures, and price level indices for GDP and its main aggregates for 177 participating economies, and partial results for an additional 22 economies.
As of June 20, 2014, the full set of detailed 2011 International Comparison Program results can be accessed by downloading the data in Excel. This data are available for ICP 2011 regions or economic groupings: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Eurostat-OECD, Latin America, Western Asia, singleton economies, and the Pacific Islands. Also included are estimates for non-benchmark economies. The data covers 26 expenditures categories for goods and services, and several indicators including PPPs, expenditure shares of GDP, total and per capita expenditures in USD both in exchange rate terms and PPP terms, and price level indices.
The Summary results and findings of the 2011 international Comparison Program was published on April 30, 2014. The link to the press release can be found here (Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese).
Additionally, the ICP 2011 results can be accessed through web resources for retrieving and reporting development related data: the ICP Data Portal, the ICP DataFinder App (iOS | Android devices 7"+), and ICP Data Visualization. Using the web resources, users can customize online the ICP 2011 data by preparing reports, charts and maps.
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Africa | Asia and the Pacific | CIS | Eurostat |
Latin America and the Caribbean | OECD | Western Asia | Georgia
Geographical Regions |
East Asia and the Pacific |
Europe and
Central Asia |
Latin America and the Caribbean |
Middle East & North Africa |
North America | South Asia | Sub- Saharan Africa |
Total |
ICP Regions Groups |
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Africa | 5 | 45 | 50 | |||||
Asia and the Pacific | 16 | 7 | 23 | |||||
Commonwealth of Independent States | 9 | 9 | ||||||
Latin America and the Caribbean | 39 | 39 | ||||||
OECD - Eurostat | 4 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 47 | ||
Pacific Islands | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Singleton Countries | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Western Asia | 11 | 1 | 12 | |||||
Dual Participation* | -3 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -6 | |||
Total | 40 | 46 | 41 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 45 | 199 |