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Cyprus vs Croatia

14% dearer than — Cyprus against Croatia

Cyprus66.92025
Croatia58.82025

On national price levels, Cyprus is 14% dearer than Croatia. Both figures use the United States as 100.

Where the difference actually sits

A single number hides the interesting part. These are the categories Eurostat prices for both countries.

CategoryCyprusCroatiaDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)63.749.1 +30%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks104.7103.7 +1%
Bread and cereals109.3107.1 +2%
Meat88.386.4 +2%
Fish101.8103.5 -2%
Milk, cheese and eggs130.8111.0 +18%
Fruit and vegetables98.491.4 +8%
Non-alcoholic drinks104.3131.1 -20%
Alcoholic drinks119.2125.6 -5%
Tobacco71.966.9 +7%
Clothing and footwear97.696.1 +2%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel92.144.0 +109%
Furnishings and household equipment86.795.1 -9%
Health99.566.4 +50%
Transport87.784.6 +4%
Communication101.0111.0 -9%
Recreation and culture88.486.3 +2%
Education138.662.8 +121%
Restaurants and hotels89.095.4 -7%

SOURCE·Eurostat — purchasing power parities (prc_ppp_ind)·Price level indices by consumption category, published on an EU27=100 basis and rebased here to US=100. CC BY 4.0.·REVIEWED AUG 2026

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

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