Co$t of Living Per-Cents: Up or Down ??

[GOLTZBORG]

Over the last decade's period of time, and based on annual general government accounting procedures, what has been the average per-cent of increase in your nation's / people's cost of living ? ( assuming that world and national inflation is a factor of consideration...as is usual )

[Lackadaisical2]

OOC: 'Percent', theres no hyphen.

To maintain the same standard of living, comparing today with ten years ago:

Standard	Percent Change
Poverty/Slavery(2,000 calories a day, minimal shelter and heating)	-5
Lower Class(Personal car, own apartment or humble house, disposable income)	-7
Middle Class (high quality food, large personal house, nice personal car, savings and insurance)	-1
Upper Class(Extravagance)	+3

The moderate levels of real price decrease have coincided with raising of incomes, leading to higher overall quality of life, more people are now classed above poverty than ever before.

[Quba Kuba Islands]

The average cost of living increase per year over the last 10 years has been 10.5%.