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The world’s most and least expensive cities to live in revealed

Cities with the highest and lowest cost of living
The cheapest: =9th cheapest: New Delhi, India
= 9th cheapest: Bucharest, Romania
8th cheapest: Chennai, India
= 6th cheapest: Algiers, Algeria
= 6th cheapest: Karachi, Pakistan
5th cheapest: Bengaluru, India
4th cheapest: Lagos, Nigeria
3rd cheapest: Almaty, Kazakhstan
2nd cheapest: Caracas, Venezuela
Cheapest: Damascus, Syria
The most expensive: 10th most expensive: Sydney, Australia
9th most expensive: Tel Aviv, Israel
8th most expensive: Copenhagen, Denmark
7th most expensive: Seoul, South Korea
6th most expensive: Geneva, Switzerland
5th most expensive: Oslo, Norway
4th most expensive: Hong Kong, China
3rd most expensive: Zurich, Switzerland
2nd most expensive: Paris, France
Most expensive: Singapore, Republic of Singapore
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Cities with the highest and lowest cost of living

Have you ever wondered whether life would be cheaper if you lived somewhere else? We've used The Worldwide Cost of Living Report 2018 by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to bring you the top 10 cheapest, and most expensive, cities to live in in the world. Comparing more than 400 individual prices across 160 goods and services, in more than 130 cities all over the world, we’ve looked at the cost in US dollars of a 1kg loaf of bread, a bottle of table wine, 20 branded cigarettes, and 1 litre of unleaded petrol, to bring you the definitive ranking...

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Frances Carruthers

01 July 2019

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