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Lithuania vs Croatia

6% dearer than — Lithuania against Croatia

Lithuania62.12025
Croatia58.82025

On national price levels, Lithuania is 6% 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.

CategoryLithuaniaCroatiaDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)52.449.1 +7%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks101.2103.7 -2%
Bread and cereals104.9107.1 -2%
Meat80.386.4 -7%
Fish90.2103.5 -13%
Milk, cheese and eggs113.9111.0 +3%
Fruit and vegetables97.791.4 +7%
Non-alcoholic drinks121.4131.1 -7%
Alcoholic drinks123.7125.6 -2%
Tobacco77.466.9 +16%
Clothing and footwear106.596.1 +11%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel59.744.0 +36%
Furnishings and household equipment89.995.1 -5%
Health67.366.4 +1%
Transport81.684.6 -4%
Communication98.5111.0 -11%
Recreation and culture82.186.3 -5%
Education72.862.8 +16%
Restaurants and hotels86.195.4 -10%

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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