Compare a salary between two countries
Compare the cost of living in 122 countries, housing included.
To live the same
≈ PEN 870
With €1,950 a month in the Netherlands, in Peru you would need ≈ PEN 870 to live the same.
At the official rates of 2024: €1 = PEN 4.06.
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×2 means it buys twice as much as in the Netherlands.
Where €1,950 goes furthest
| Country | Goes further |
|---|---|
| Malawi | ×82.0 |
| Zambia | ×74.2 |
| DR Congo | ×73.8 |
| Mozambique | ×65.2 |
| Rwanda | ×63.4 |
Where €1,950 goes least far
| Country | Goes further |
|---|---|
| United States | ×0.6 |
| Switzerland | ×0.6 |
| Luxembourg | ×0.6 |
| Norway | ×0.8 |
| Iceland | ×0.9 |
What this figure measures
- What an average person in the country spends a month, housing included (or earns, in some countries). From the World Bank's household surveys.
- The surveys give it in dollars that buy the same in every country (purchasing power parity). With the country's price level, it becomes what that costs there, at 2024 prices.
- It is a national average, not a given city: a big city usually costs more, a village less.
- Your way of living may not be the average one.
Where the numbers come from
- What an average person lives on in each country, housing included: the World Bank's household surveys (2010–2025, each country its latest).
- Brought to 2024 prices with US inflation, then to each country's prices with the World Bank's price levels. Data of 9 Oct 2026, licence CC BY 4.0.
- Each country in its own currency, at the World Bank's official rate for 2024 (a yearly average, never a live rate). Without a rate for that year, in US dollars.
- One person, a month. Rounded to 1 under 95, to 10 under 10,000, and to three figures above. Only countries with official data are listed: no figure is invented.
- Provisional: read from a public copy of the World Bank's data, until the yearly download.
- A national average: cities differ a lot. Some countries measure spending, others income.