Pricele #28: Gasoline (1 litre) in Egypt 🇪🇬
The puzzle for 28 July 2026 asked what one litre of gasoline costs in Egypt. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Gasoline (1 litre) · Egypt
$0.43
21.98 EGP
About 14 minutes of the average local wage buys one.
That makes it the cheapest gasoline of all 32 countries in the game.
Source: Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08.
About gasoline
Crude oil trades on a world market at one price, so the pump price is almost pure policy. Countries that tax fuel heavily land near the top of the table; oil producers that subsidise it land at the bottom, sometimes below what it costs to refine. The spread between the cheapest and most expensive country here is wider than for any other item in the game.
Where Egypt sits
Of the 32 countries priced for gasoline, Egypt ranks #32 from the top at $0.43 — 69% below the median of $1.38.
Egypt has the cheapest fuel in the game by a wide margin — the state has subsidised petrol for decades, though it has been cutting those subsidies under IMF programmes since 2016. Successive devaluations of the pound also make Egyptian prices look very low once converted to dollars.
| Nearby on the gasoline table | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | $0.43 | 21.98 EGP | 14 min |
| Saudi Arabia | $0.62 | 2.33 SAR | 3 min |
| Indonesia | $0.74 | 13,348 IDR | 20 min |
What else costs what in Egypt
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $2.65 | 125 EGP | 88 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.40 | 19 EGP | 13 min |
| Cappuccino | $1.48 | 75.66 EGP | 49 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $0.88 | 44.99 EGP | 29 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $1.34 | 68.51 EGP | 45 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.60 | 81.8 EGP | 53 min |
Go deeper
See the full table for gasoline in every country or everything priced in Egypt.