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Finland vs Bosnia and Herzegovina

105% dearer than — Finland against Bosnia and Herzegovina

Finland90.62025
Bosnia and Herzegovina44.32025

On national price levels, Finland is 105% dearer than Bosnia and Herzegovina. 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.

CategoryFinlandBosnia and HerzegovinaDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)85.340.0 +113%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks109.883.2 +32%
Bread and cereals114.679.5 +44%
Meat102.178.7 +30%
Fish106.483.4 +28%
Milk, cheese and eggs106.495.6 +11%
Fruit and vegetables112.471.9 +56%
Non-alcoholic drinks123.191.1 +35%
Alcoholic drinks210.490.4 +133%
Tobacco157.549.4 +219%
Clothing and footwear120.795.0 +27%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel129.031.0 +316%
Furnishings and household equipment109.572.5 +51%
Health153.156.1 +173%
Transport111.891.1 +23%
Communication110.495.4 +16%
Recreation and culture124.275.7 +64%
Education123.934.2 +262%
Restaurants and hotels126.874.6 +70%

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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