Pricele #41: Eggs (dozen) in Brazil 🇧🇷
The puzzle for 10 August 2026 asked what twelve large eggs of eggs costs in Brazil. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Eggs (dozen) · Brazil
$2.27
11.5 BRL
About 30 minutes of the average local wage buys one.
Cheaper than 74% of the 32 countries in the game.
Source: Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08.
About eggs
Eggs are the most volatile item in the game. Avian influenza outbreaks can double a country's egg price within a few months and pull it back down just as fast, so an egg price is as much a snapshot of this year's flock health as it is of local cost of living.
Where Brazil sits
Of the 32 countries priced for eggs, Brazil ranks #24 from the top at $2.27 — 34% below the median of $3.46.
Brazil grows a great deal of what it eats, so staples are cheap in dollar terms even though local incomes are modest. Coffee is the clearest example: Brazil is the world's largest producer, and a café cappuccino costs a fraction of the European price. Brazilian indirect tax is the one case in this table where no single rate can be quoted honestly — federal, state and municipal levies overlap, and the effective burden on an identical item genuinely differs between states. That complexity is why the Brazilian rows here should be read as national approximations, and why a Brazilian reader may find their own supermarket disagrees.
| Nearby on the eggs table | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | $2.08 | 69.57 THB | 36 min |
| Turkey | $2.13 | 101.28 TRY | 32 min |
| Brazil | $2.27 | 11.5 BRL | 30 min |
| South Africa | $2.50 | 41.38 ZAR | 33 min |
| Saudi Arabia | $2.57 | 9.64 SAR | 13 min |
What else costs what in Brazil
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $4.45 | 23.9 BRL | 59 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.11 | 6.5 BRL | 15 min |
| Cappuccino | $2.06 | 10.44 BRL | 27 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.07 | 5.42 BRL | 14 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.25 | 11.4 BRL | 30 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.24 | 6.28 BRL | 17 min |
Go deeper
See the full table for eggs in every country or everything priced in Brazil.