What things actually cost, country by country
204 countries, from the statistics offices — not from a comment box.
Most cost-of-living sites are crowdsourced: anyone can type in a price, and nobody checks it. That is fine for a rough feel and useless for a decision you are actually making.
This one uses only official statistics — the World Bank's purchasing power parities and Eurostat's price surveys — and does the thing a single crowdsourced source structurally cannot: it checks the two agencies against each other and prints the gap.
37 of 39 countries where both publish agree within 5 points.
The dearest countries
- Iran, Islamic Rep. 210.9
- Bermuda 144.1
- Cayman Islands 140.1
- Barbados 131.9
- Turks and Caicos Islands 131.7
- Iceland 129.7
- Switzerland 128.2
- New Caledonia 115.1
- Guam 111.2
- Bahamas, The 110.7
The cheapest
- Zimbabwe 0.0
- Liberia 0.3
- Egypt, Arab Rep. 15.7
- Afghanistan 20.6
- Nigeria 20.9
- India 22.8
- Pakistan 23.3
- Bulgaria 23.9
- Bhutan 24.2
- Sierra Leone 24.9
Price level with the United States at 100. Cheap on this scale often means low local wages rather than a bargain — which is why the useful question is prices against pay, not prices alone.
SOURCE·World Bank — International Comparison Program·PPP conversion factor for household final consumption, and the official market exchange rate. CC BY 4.0.·REVIEWED AUG 2026
SOURCE·World Bank ICP PPPs + Eurostat price level indices·price levels derived as PPP ÷ exchange rate, see method·REVIEWED AUG 2026