The Worldwide Cost of Living Survey compares more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services in cities around the world.
This data is used to produce our annual Worldwide Cost of Living Report which provides a ranking of the world’s major cities. Find out this year’s highlights by downloading a copy of the latest free summary report.
For the first time three cities share the title of the world's most expensive city – Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. In this year’s top 10, Singapore represents the only city that has maintained its ranking from the previous year.
For further results, and our analysis of this year’s rankings, please download the free summary report. Alternatively you can purchase the full report from The EIU store
| WCOL index | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Country | (New York=100) | ||
| 1 | Singapore | Singapore | 107= | |
| 1 | ↑ 1 | Paris | France | 107= |
| 1 | ↑ 3 | Hong Kong | China | 107= |
| 2 | ↓ 2 | Zurich | Switzerland | 106 |
| 3 | ↑ 1 | Geneva | Switzerland | 101 |
| WCOL index | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Country | (New York=100) | ||
| 1 | ↓ 1 | Caracas | Venezuela | 15 |
| 2 | ↑ 1 | Damascus | Syria | 25 |
| 3 | ↓ 19 | Tashkent | Uzbekistan | 33 |
| 4 | ↑ 1 | Almaty | Kazakhstan | 35 |
| 5 | Bangalore | India | 39 |
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