Every country and territory on earth — 252 of them — ranked from the most expensive to the cheapest, and everything in between.
Prices are 2025–26 estimates in US dollars at market rates, then converted into whatever currency you choose. Cross-country comparisons are indicative, not exact — see About.
Cost Map puts one number on every country and territory: what it costs. Three different questions get three different answers, and the map holds all of them at once — what it costs to live there, what it costs to visit, and what it costs the person who already lives there.
The indices use the convention that New York City = 100, so an index of 40 means a place is roughly 60% cheaper than Manhattan for the same basket. Traveller day-rates are per person, all-in on the ground — bed, food, local transport, a couple of paid sights — and exclude flights. Money is held in US dollars at market exchange rates and converted on the fly.
Please read this part. Consumer prices are not a census: they are assembled from crowd-sourced price databases, traveller budget reports, national statistics and, for the smallest territories, careful estimation from comparable economies. Every country page flags its confidence. Prices also vary enormously inside a country — a single national figure hides the gap between a capital and a village, and the map's rents and salaries lean towards the main city. Where an official exchange rate is fiction (Venezuela, Syria, Zimbabwe, Iran, Lebanon, North Korea), the figure reflects the rate a visitor actually transacts at, which is the only rate that means anything.
Sources: crowd-sourced consumer price indices (Numbeo-style methodology) · The Economist's Big Mac index · traveller budget reports · World Bank ICP & national statistics offices · ILO and national wage data · borders from Natural Earth 1:50m · globe by globe.gl · exchange rates from open.er-api.com, falling back to a bundled table.
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