Pricele #64: Beer (330ml) in Tanzania 🇹🇿

Beer is heavy, mostly water, and brewed close to where it is drunk, so a shop-bought bottle is a fairly clean read on local costs plus local excise duty. It is also the item where the shop and the bar diverge most: the same bottle carries a markup of three or four times once someone hands it to you across a counter, which is why this figure is the retail one.

Of the 42 countries priced for beer, Tanzania ranks #30 from the top at $0.74, 26% below the median of $1.00.

Tanzania is one of the cheaper countries here in dollar terms, on low wages and a food supply that is mostly domestic, so the interesting reading is again the work-time column rather than the price one. It is also the only country in the table with two consumption-tax systems: VAT runs at 18% on the mainland and under a separate Zanzibar regime at 15% for most supplies, and basic agricultural products and food for human consumption are exempt from both. A single national electricity tariff hides very large differences in what it costs to actually reach a household.

See the full table for beer in every country or everything priced in Tanzania.