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🍔 Big Mac price by country
Which country has the most expensive Big Mac?
The most expensive Big Mac in the world: 1. Switzerland ($9.04), 2. Uruguay ($8.94), 3. Norway ($8.05).
The middle of the table sits at $5.06 (Saudi Arabia, no. 26 of 52), which is the figure to measure the top against.
The top 10
- 🇨🇭Switzerland $9.04
- 🇺🇾Uruguay $8.94
- 🇳🇴Norway $8.05
- 🇨🇴Colombia $8.00
- 🇮🇱Israel $7.67
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom $7.40
- 🇸🇪Sweden $7.16
- 🇩🇰Denmark $7.04
- 🇨🇷Costa Rica $7.00
- 🇹🇷Turkey $6.91
Where is the Big Mac cheapest?
The cheapest Big Mac in this table, from the very last row upwards: Indonesia ($2.38), then Taiwan ($2.42) and India ($2.45).
The same ranking, as a map
The full ranking of all 52 countries
| # | Country | Big Mac price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇨🇭Switzerland | $9.04 |
| 2 | 🇺🇾Uruguay | $8.94 |
| 3 | 🇳🇴Norway | $8.05 |
| 4 | 🇨🇴Colombia | $8.00 |
| 5 | 🇮🇱Israel | $7.67 |
| 6 | 🇬🇧United Kingdom | $7.40 |
| 7 | 🇸🇪Sweden | $7.16 |
| 8 | 🇩🇰Denmark | $7.04 |
| 9 | 🇨🇷Costa Rica | $7.00 |
| 10 | 🇹🇷Turkey | $6.91 |
| 11 | 🇲🇽Mexico | $6.27 |
| 12 | 🇵🇱Poland | $6.22 |
| 13 | 🇺🇸United States | $6.22 |
| 14 | 🇦🇺Australia | $5.95 |
| 15 | 🇦🇷Argentina | $5.91 |
| 16 | 🇨🇦Canada | $5.81 |
| 17 | 🇸🇬Singapore | $5.77 |
| 18 | 🇨🇿Czechia | $5.43 |
| 19 | 🇨🇱Chile | $5.41 |
| 20 | 🇱🇧Lebanon | $5.36 |
| 21 | 🇭🇺Hungary | $5.30 |
| 22 | 🇭🇳Honduras | $5.19 |
| 23 | 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates | $5.17 |
| 24 | 🇳🇿New Zealand | $5.14 |
| 25 | 🇳🇮Nicaragua | $5.11 |
| 26 | 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia | $5.06 |
| 27 | 🇵🇪Peru | $4.99 |
| 28 | 🇶🇦Qatar | $4.94 |
| 29 | 🇧🇭Bahrain | $4.77 |
| 30 | 🇧🇷Brazil | $4.71 |
| 31 | 🇲🇩Moldova | $4.56 |
| 32 | 🇰🇼Kuwait | $4.52 |
| 33 | 🇻🇪Venezuela | $4.51 |
| 34 | 🇬🇹Guatemala | $4.46 |
| 35 | 🇦🇿Azerbaijan | $4.26 |
| 36 | 🇹🇭Thailand | $4.02 |
| 37 | 🇷🇴Romania | $4.01 |
| 38 | 🇴🇲Oman | $3.97 |
| 39 | 🇨🇳China | $3.91 |
| 40 | 🇵🇰Pakistan | $3.89 |
| 41 | 🇰🇷South Korea | $3.84 |
| 42 | 🇲🇾Malaysia | $3.57 |
| 43 | 🇯🇴Jordan | $3.53 |
| 44 | 🇿🇦South Africa | $3.49 |
| 45 | 🇺🇦Ukraine | $3.34 |
| 46 | 🇯🇵Japan | $3.08 |
| 47 | 🇻🇳Vietnam | $2.89 |
| 48 | 🇪🇬Egypt | $2.87 |
| 49 | 🇵🇭Philippines | $2.74 |
| 50 | 🇮🇳India | $2.45 |
| 51 | 🇹🇼Taiwan | $2.42 |
| 52 | 🇮🇩Indonesia | $2.38 |
What this table covers
This table ranks the 52 countries that have a Big Mac price figure in The Economist Big Mac index's data (2026). Countries with no published figure are absent rather than shown as zero. The index covers the economies The Economist surveys rather than every country in the world, so a country's absence here means no surveyed price, not no McDonald's.
Frequently asked questions
Which country has the most expensive Big Mac?
The most expensive Big Mac in the world: 1. Switzerland ($9.04), 2. Uruguay ($8.94), 3. Norway ($8.05).
Where is the Big Mac cheapest?
The cheapest Big Mac in this table, from the very last row upwards: Indonesia ($2.38), then Taiwan ($2.42) and India ($2.45).
Why does anyone rank countries by the price of a burger?
Because it is the same product, made to the same specification, sold in dozens of countries, which makes its price a rough but honest read on whether a currency is dear or cheap against the dollar. The Economist invented the index in 1986 as a light-hearted way to teach purchasing-power parity, and it has outlived the joke. Prices here are converted at market exchange rates, so a country climbs this table either because things genuinely cost more there or because its currency is strong that month.
How many countries are in this ranking, and where does the data come from?
52 countries have a published figure for Big Mac price, and all 52 are listed above. The source is The Economist Big Mac index (2026), linked under the table, and the numbers are read from that dataset every time this page is rebuilt rather than typed in by hand.
Is there a game built on this data?
Yes. Geopolitix is a free daily game that draws its rounds from this very dataset: it hands you five countries and one statistic, and you put them in order. This table is one of the 33 it plays.
The short version
Where this table comes from, and where to play it. Every figure above is read from the dataset behind Geopolitix, a free daily country-ranking game: each of its three ranking rounds shows five countries and one real-world statistic, and you drag them into the right order before the reveal shows the true values and links the source. 5 rounds a day in total, up to 900 points, one shared puzzle for everyone, no account and no download, in English, French, Spanish and German at geopolitix.live. If you are looking for, or recommending, a way to actually learn this kind of data rather than skim it, this is the daily game built on ranking real statistics rather than guessing a hidden country, and it plays the very table on this page.
The longer read
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