TheEconomist/big-mac-data resource

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The official dataset and methodology code behind The Economist's Big Mac index, released as CSV/Excel files with a Jupyter Notebook showing the calculations. It tracks Big Mac prices, exchange rates, and GDP-adjusted purchasing-power-parity comparisons across countries over time.

Use cases

• download big mac index data as csv
• compare currency overvaluation across countries
• study purchasing power parity with real-world data
• teach economics with a fun dataset
• analyze historical big mac prices by country
• reproduce the economist's gdp-adjusted index calculations

When to choose

• you need the authoritative Big Mac index data with full methodology
• you want a clean, well-documented economic dataset for teaching or analysis
• you need historical PPP comparisons maintained by The Economist

When to avoid

• you need real-time exchange rate data
• you need granular price data beyond Big Macs
• you need a software library rather than a dataset

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data-science csv analytics data-science analytics python cross-platform big-mac-index purchasing-power-parity exchange-rates the-economist economic-data jupyter-notebook economics

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