Pricele #115: Beer (330ml) in Pakistan 🇵🇰
The puzzle for 23 October 2026 asked what a 330ml bottle of beer costs in Pakistan. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Beer (330ml) · Pakistan
$1.33
369.6 PKR
About 2.7 hours of the average local wage buys a 330ml bottle of beer.
More expensive than 63% of the 52 countries in the game.
Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand).
About beer
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.
Where Pakistan sits
Of the 52 countries priced for beer, Pakistan ranks #20 from the top at $1.33, 1.2× the median of $1.12.
Pakistani hourly earnings are among the lowest in the game, so the work-time column is where this country's prices actually live: figures that read as cheap in dollars are not cheap to the person paying them. Sales tax on goods is 18%, high for the income level, and provinces levy their own 15% to 16% on services on top. Successive devaluations and the energy tariff increases required under IMF programmes have pushed electricity and fuel up faster than wages, which is why those two rows sit oddly high against everything else here.
| Nearby on the beer table | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | $1.311.21 EUR | 1.21 EUR | 6 min |
| South Korea | $1.331,848 KRW | 1,848 KRW | 6 min |
| Pakistan | $1.33369.6 PKR | 369.6 PKR | 2.7 h |
| Japan | $1.39211.2 JPY | 211.2 JPY | 5 min |
| Austria | $1.441.33 EUR | 1.33 EUR | 3 min |
What else costs what in Pakistan
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $3.861,080 PKR | 1,080 PKR | 7.7 h |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.38381.14 PKR | 381.14 PKR | 2.8 h |
| Diesel (1 litre) | $1.41390.42 PKR | 390.42 PKR | 2.8 h |
| Electricity (100 kWh) | $5.801,599 PKR | 1,599 PKR | 11.6 h |
| Cigarettes (20-pack) | $0.83230 PKR | 230 PKR | 1.7 h |
| Spirits (750ml bottle) | $6.311,759.5 PKR | 1,759.5 PKR | 12.6 h |
| Vape e-liquid (1 ml) | $1.08300 PKR | 300 PKR | 2.2 h |
| Mobile data (1 GB) | $0.12 | — | 14 min |
| A day's healthy diet | $0.92257.39 PKR | 257.39 PKR | 1.8 h |
Go deeper
See the full table for beer in every country or everything priced in Pakistan.