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France vs Turkiye

84% dearer than — France against Turkiye

France82.82025
Turkiye45.02025

On national price levels, France is 84% dearer than Turkiye. 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.

CategoryFranceTurkiyeDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)72.331.4 +130%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks110.176.7 +44%
Bread and cereals112.567.8 +66%
Meat131.774.1 +78%
Fish110.685.2 +30%
Milk, cheese and eggs96.0100.6 -5%
Fruit and vegetables119.262.8 +90%
Non-alcoholic drinks96.987.1 +11%
Alcoholic drinks102.3202.6 -50%
Tobacco194.826.0 +649%
Clothing and footwear97.871.5 +37%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel122.524.1 +408%
Furnishings and household equipment107.765.6 +64%
Health98.933.2 +198%
Transport108.976.4 +43%
Communication82.261.3 +34%
Recreation and culture105.754.2 +95%
Education97.312.2 +698%
Restaurants and hotels110.068.9 +60%

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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