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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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= 6th cheapest: Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistan’s largest city, located on the south coast, is a melting pot of cultures with migrants making up an estimated 90% of its population. In Karachi, cigarettes come to $1.68 (£1.32) for 20, bread costs $1.70 (£1.34), and petrol works out as $0.68 (£0.54) per litre. However, alcohol is expensive at $14.14 per bottle of wine: 96.5% of the population is Muslim and legally prohibited from drinking alcohol, while for the small proportion of non-Muslims who can drink, high taxes make the hard stuff more expensive.

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Frances Carruthers

01 July 2019

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