Cost of living calculator

Cost of living calculator here is computed against Eurostat + World Bank. The inputs are shown, the assumptions are written down, and the result is a range rather than a single number wherever the underlying data supports only a range.

The question here is what one place costs for one household, rather than how two places compare. That makes it the harder of the two calculators to answer honestly, because a household is not a standard basket: the published index weights spending the way the average household spends it, and almost nobody is the average household. The calculator therefore shows the twelve categories separately and lets the reader weight them, instead of producing a single monthly figure that would be precise and wrong for everyone who reads it.

Worked example: Switzerland against Türkiye. The same standard basket costs about 294 percent more in the first, on the 2024 figures.

It covers 199 countries, which is exactly the set the source measures and no more.

The figures behind this tool describe 2024 and they change when Eurostat + World Bank publishes, not when this page is edited. That is why the year appears next to every value rather than in the small print: a tool whose data is a year old and says so is more useful than one that looks current and is not.

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