Pricele #70: Mobile data (1 GB) in Egypt 🇪🇬

The only price in the game that has collapsed rather than risen: the world average fell from $8.18 a gigabyte in 2019 to $2.61 four years later. Countries that built dense 4G networks early and then let operators fight over them are pennies a gigabyte; countries running data over satellite or through a single incumbent are still tens of dollars. Rich and cheap are almost unrelated here, which is what makes it hard to guess.

Of the 49 countries priced for mobile data, Egypt ranks #23 from the top at $0.65, 1.0× the median of $0.63.

Egypt has the cheapest fuel in the game by a wide margin, and 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. VAT is 14% with several basic foods exempt, but in a country where the currency has repeatedly halved against the dollar, the exchange rate does more to the numbers on this page than the tax code does. Egyptian figures are best read alongside the date they were collected.

See the full table for mobile data in every country or everything priced in Egypt.