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Norway vs Sweden

6% dearer than — Norway against Sweden

Norway96.22025
Sweden90.52025

On national price levels, Norway is 6% dearer than Sweden. 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.

CategoryNorwaySwedenDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)89.982.4 +9%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks131.2106.4 +23%
Bread and cereals128.8108.6 +19%
Meat140.0106.2 +32%
Fish103.3100.9 +2%
Milk, cheese and eggs132.0100.8 +31%
Fruit and vegetables136.1115.7 +18%
Non-alcoholic drinks139.1104.7 +33%
Alcoholic drinks225.8145.8 +55%
Tobacco210.5104.0 +102%
Clothing and footwear117.6120.6 -2%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel99.9112.0 -11%
Furnishings and household equipment111.4109.4 +2%
Health173.6155.8 +11%
Transport117.5111.1 +6%
Communication178.7143.1 +25%
Recreation and culture138.5118.0 +17%
Education176.9161.8 +9%
Restaurants and hotels140.0116.7 +20%

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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