The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical partnership to collect comparative price data and compile detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and to estimate purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world’s economies. Using PPPs instead of market exchange rates to convert currencies makes it possible to compare the output of economies and the welfare of their inhabitants in real terms (that is, controlling for differences in price levels).
2011 Round
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is being implemented as a true global initiative for the second time, with the reference year 2011. It will build on well programmed activities of a wide network of national and bi- and multi-lateral institutions that will engage in methodological research and review, survey activities and data processing and analysis in the areas of price statistics and national accounts and related fields with a view to estimating purchasing power parities (PPPs) of the world’s principal economies. More ...
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Overview Activities
ICP Data
The main results of the ICP 2005 round can be downloaded from DDP. DDP is a web resource for retrieving and reporting development-related data. Using its functionalities, one can prepare web reports, charts and maps which can be published and shared over the web. It provides powerful features to customize these reports and manage them. As far as ICP statistics are concerned, DDP includes data from the ICP 2005 round for 24 categories of expenditures and goods and services, including the GDP itself. These are:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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For each country that participated in the ICP 2005, and for each of these categories, the system provides data for 17 indicators including: Exchange rate; Purchasing Power Parities; Expenditure shares of GDP; Total and per capita expenditures in US Dollars both in exchange rate term and PPP term; Price level index with the US or the whole world as a base. These data can also be downloaded for the regions or country groupings such as: Asia and Pacific, Africa, South America, OECD and Eurostat, etc.
DDP is developed and maintained by the Development Data Group (DECDG) and its partners.
- Click here to visit the ICP Quick Query site.
- Click here to visit the DDP Time Series site.
| Geographical Regions |
East Asia & Pacific |
Europe & Central Asia |
Latin America & Caribbean |
Middle East & North Africa |
North America | South Asia | Sub- Saharan Africa |
Total |
| ICP Regions Groups |
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| Africa | 6 | 46 | 52 | |||||
| Asia & Pacific | 16 | 7 | 23 | |||||
| Commonwealth of Independent States | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Latin America & Caribbean | 40 | 1 | 41 | |||||
| OECD - Eurostat | 4 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 47 | ||
| Pacific Islands | 15 | 15 | ||||||
| Singleton Countries | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Western Asia | 13 | 1 | 14 | |||||
| Dual Participation* | -1 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -5 | |||
| Total | 35 | 48 | 40 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 46 | 200 |
* Please note that Chile, Egypt, Arab Rep., Mexico, Russia Federation, and Sudan are included in more than one region.
ICP 2005 Global Results
FusionMaps.
Key Indicators:
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Partnerships
- National Statistical Offices of more than 110 participating countries
- Other National Statistical Offices represented on the ICP Executive Board
