Cost of living by country: the dataset
What US$100 buys in 173 countries, as a free CSV or JSON download. No sign-up, no key, updated continuously.
What's in it
- price_level — World Bank PPP conversion factor divided by the market exchange rate. 1.00 means prices match the US, 0.50 means half.
- usd100_buys — the local purchasing power of US$100, in US dollars. Vietnam sits near $370.
- Plus the inputs, so you can check the arithmetic: PPP factor and its year, GDP per capita and its year, and the currency used.
Why it differs from other PPP tables
Most purchasing-power figures divide by an exchange rate fixed at the time the PPP was published, so they drift as currencies move. This divides by today's market rate, which is why a country whose currency has fallen shows up as cheaper here than in a year-old table.
What it is not
These are national averages for residents. Neighbourhoods popular with visitors, and rent paid by foreigners, run well above them — useful for comparing countries against each other, not as a travel budget.
Countries whose exchange rate is a managed peg, or otherwise so far out of line with their income that the result would be fictional, are left out rather than guessed at. That is why the count is 173 and not every country on earth.
Sources and licence
PPP conversion factors and GDP per capita from the World Bank (data.worldbank.org, CC BY 4.0); exchange rates from fxratesapi.com. The derived figures are free to reuse with attribution to WanderGrade.