Belgium vs United Arab Emirates

On national price levels, Belgium is 27% dearer than United Arab Emirates. Both figures use the United States as 100.

Where the difference actually sits

Category detail is not published for both of these countries, so this comparison stays at the national level. That is a limit of the source data, not a rounding of it.

Before you use this to decide anything

• These are national averages. Comparing two capital cities is a different question and this data cannot answer it.
• Price level is only half of the decision. What matters is prices relative to what you would earn — see what the job pays in each country on PayLens.
• The figures are indices, not prices. Nothing here is a quote for rent or groceries.

How the price level is worked out

1. The World Bank publishes a purchasing power parity for household consumption — how much local currency buys the same basket as one US dollar — and the official market exchange rate for the same year.
2. The price level is simply PPP ÷ exchange rate × 100. If a basket needs 1.50 New Zealand dollars per US dollar of purchasing power but the market hands you 1.65 New Zealand dollars for that dollar, New Zealand's prices sit at 1.50 ÷ 1.65 = 91% of the US level.
3. Nothing is modelled, smoothed or estimated. You can reproduce every number on this site from two public figures.
4. Where Eurostat also publishes a price level for the same country and year, the two are compared and the gap is printed — including when they disagree.

Full methodology →

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