Coca-Cola (330ml can) prices by country
Coca-Cola is sold in more countries than almost any other branded product, which makes it a useful yardstick — but a noisy one. The same can costs very different amounts in a supermarket, a corner shop and a hotel minibar, and Coca-Cola deliberately prices to the local market rather than converting a single global price.
Below, a 330ml can priced in 33 countries, cheapest first, in US dollars and in local currency.
The numbers
| Country | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | $0.40 | 19 EGP | 13 min |
| Vietnam | $0.45 | 11,000 VND | 10 min |
| China | $0.48 | 3.5 CNY | 5 min |
| Lebanon | $0.50 | 45,000 LBP | 9 min |
| Thailand | $0.58 | 20 THB | 10 min |
| Indonesia | $0.63 | 10,000 IDR | 17 min |
| Argentina | $0.71 | 750 ARS | 12 min |
| Saudi Arabia | $0.80 | 3 SAR | 4 min |
| South Africa | $0.81 | 15 ZAR | 11 min |
| India | $0.82 | 70 INR | 20 min |
| United Arab Emirates | $0.95 | 3.5 AED | 4 min |
| Turkey | $0.95 | 35 TRY | 14 min |
| Mexico | $1.04 | 18 MXN | 16 min |
| Brazil | $1.11 | 6.5 BRL | 15 min |
| Japan | $1.15 | 180 JPY | 4 min |
| Portugal | $1.21 | 1.15 EUR | 8 min |
| Spain | $1.37 | 1.3 EUR | 7 min |
| South Korea | $1.46 | 2,000 KRW | 6 min |
| Netherlands | $1.46 | 1.39 EUR | 4 min |
| Poland | $1.47 | 5.99 PLN | 11 min |
| United Kingdom | $1.55 | 1.25 GBP | 5 min |
| Singapore | $1.55 | 2.1 SGD | 6 min |
| Germany | $1.56 | 1.49 EUR | 4 min |
| Italy | $1.58 | 1.5 EUR | 7 min |
| France | $1.68 | 1.6 EUR | 6 min |
| Sweden | $1.76 | 18.9 SEK | 5 min |
| Canada | $1.79 | 2.49 CAD | 5 min |
| Ireland | $1.94 | 1.85 EUR | 6 min |
| United States | $1.99 | 1.99 USD | 5 min |
| Norway | $2.18 | 24 NOK | 5 min |
| Australia | $2.21 | 3.5 AUD | 5 min |
| New Zealand | $2.22 | 3.8 NZD | 6 min |
| Switzerland | $2.46 | 2.2 CHF | 4 min |
Source: A curated table of everyday retail prices assembled from published cost-of-living figures and converted to US dollars. These are the least precise numbers in the game and are best read as ballpark figures. Full methodology.
What the spread shows
The cheapest coca-cola in the game is in Egypt at $0.40; the most expensive is in Switzerland at $2.46. That is a 6.1× difference for the same thing, against a median of $1.37 across all 33 countries.
Ranking by earnings instead of dollars rearranges the table. India has the longest wait — about 20 minutes of the average local wage — while in United Arab Emirates it is roughly 4 minutes. A country can look cheap in dollars and expensive in hours at the same time, and for most people the hours are what actually matter.