Democratic Republic of Congo vs South Africa: Price level index

Democratic Republic of Congo
42.02 GDP
in 2025
South Africa
41.48 GDP
in 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
114th
South Africa rank
116th

Price level index over time

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • South Africa
20406080199020072025

How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 42.02 GDP against 41.48 GDP in South Africa, a difference of 0.5433 GDP.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was South Africa ahead.

Globally, Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 114th and South Africa ranks 116th of 203 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Price level index (GDP)
Unit
GDP
Source
World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
203 places, 7,022 data points, 1990–2025
Last refreshed

The price level index (PLI) is the ratio of a purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor to the corresponding market exchange rate between two countries, expressed relative to a base country that is set equal to 100. For this series the base country is the United States. It provides a measure of the differences in price level between the country and the United States by indicating the number of units of the common currency (US dollars) needed to buy the same volume of the aggregation level in each country. At the level of GDP, the price level ratio provides a measure of the differences in the general price levels of countries.