calculate_ppp
Calculate Purchasing Power Parity
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Given a US-denominated annual income and a target country code, returns the effective local purchasing power (income / pppIndex), the lifestyle equilibrium cost (income * pppIndex), and the purchasing power ratio (1 / pppIndex). Figures use real PPP data (World Bank, IMF, OECD, Penn World Table) relative to a US baseline of 1.0.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| income | number | yes | Nominal annual income, denominated against the US baseline. |
| target | string | yes | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 target country code (case-insensitive). Available codes depend on the chosen source. |
| source | string | no | PPP dataset to draw figures from. 'consensus' = per-country median across the GDP-based providers (recommended default); 'worldbank' = World Bank GDP price level; 'imf' = IMF WEO implied PPP; 'oecd' = OECD PPP-for-GDP (members + key partners only); 'pwt' = Penn World Table; 'worldbank-cons' = World Bank household-consumption price level; 'bigmac' = The Economist Big Mac index (single-good consumer PPP, ~40 countries); 'factbook' = CIA World Factbook derived price level for ~100 micro-states/territories the macro sources ignore (coarse). Defaults to 'consensus' if omitted. |
| city | string | no | Optional city slug (e.g. 'london', 'san-francisco') for a sub-national Capital-to-Rural adjustment: multiplies the national price level by a per-city factor (curated overrides / US-metro BEA RPP / population-tier heuristic). Unknown slug = national figure. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"income",
"target"
],
"properties": {
"income": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Nominal annual income, denominated against the US baseline."
},
"target": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 target country code (case-insensitive). Available codes depend on the chosen source.",
"enum": [
"US",
"AR",
"AU",
"BR",
"CA",
"CL",
"CN",
"CO",
"CZ",
"DK",
"EG",
"FR",
"DE",
"GR",
"HU",
"IN",
"ID",
"IE",
"IT",
"JP",
"KR",
"MY",
"MX",
"NL",
"NZ",
"NG",
"NO",
"PH",
"PL",
"PT",
"SA",
"SG",
"ZA",
"ES",
"SE",
"CH",
"TH",
"TR",
"AE",
"GB",
"VN"
]
},
"source": {
"type": "string",
"description": "PPP dataset to draw figures from. 'consensus' = per-country median across the GDP-based providers (recommended default); 'worldbank' = World Bank GDP price level; 'imf' = IMF WEO implied PPP; 'oecd' = OECD PPP-for-GDP (members + key partners only); 'pwt' = Penn World Table; 'worldbank-cons' = World Bank household-consumption price level; 'bigmac' = The Economist Big Mac index (single-good consumer PPP, ~40 countries); 'factbook' = CIA World Factbook derived price level for ~100 micro-states/territories the macro sources ignore (coarse). Defaults to 'consensus' if omitted.",
"enum": [
"consensus",
"worldbank",
"imf",
"oecd",
"pwt",
"worldbank-cons",
"bigmac",
"factbook"
],
"default": "consensus"
},
"city": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional city slug (e.g. 'london', 'san-francisco') for a sub-national Capital-to-Rural adjustment: multiplies the national price level by a per-city factor (curated overrides / US-metro BEA RPP / population-tier heuristic). Unknown slug = national figure."
}
}
}