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Luxembourg vs Croatia

68% dearer than — Luxembourg against Croatia

Luxembourg98.62025
Croatia58.82025

On national price levels, Luxembourg is 68% 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.

CategoryLuxembourgCroatiaDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)101.049.1 +106%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks124.8103.7 +20%
Bread and cereals129.1107.1 +21%
Meat137.086.4 +59%
Fish115.1103.5 +11%
Milk, cheese and eggs121.1111.0 +9%
Fruit and vegetables124.291.4 +36%
Non-alcoholic drinks119.0131.1 -9%
Alcoholic drinks102.6125.6 -18%
Tobacco84.366.9 +26%
Clothing and footwear109.196.1 +14%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel178.444.0 +305%
Furnishings and household equipment123.195.1 +29%
Health178.266.4 +168%
Transport96.484.6 +14%
Communication154.7111.0 +39%
Recreation and culture116.886.3 +35%
Education350.562.8 +458%
Restaurants and hotels123.695.4 +30%

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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