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Norway vs Turkiye

114% dearer than — Norway against Turkiye

Norway96.22025
Turkiye45.02025

On national price levels, Norway is 114% 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.

CategoryNorwayTurkiyeDifference
Overall consumption (incl. government-funded services)89.931.4 +186%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks131.276.7 +71%
Bread and cereals128.867.8 +90%
Meat140.074.1 +89%
Fish103.385.2 +21%
Milk, cheese and eggs132.0100.6 +31%
Fruit and vegetables136.162.8 +117%
Non-alcoholic drinks139.187.1 +60%
Alcoholic drinks225.8202.6 +11%
Tobacco210.526.0 +710%
Clothing and footwear117.671.5 +64%
Housing, water, electricity and fuel99.924.1 +315%
Furnishings and household equipment111.465.6 +70%
Health173.633.2 +423%
Transport117.576.4 +54%
Communication178.761.3 +192%
Recreation and culture138.554.2 +156%
Education176.912.2 +1350%
Restaurants and hotels140.068.9 +103%

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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