Gasoline (1 litre) prices by country
Gasoline (1 litre) costs from $0.43 in Egypt to $2.47 in Singapore, across 32 countries priced in US dollars and in local currency.
Crude oil trades on a world market at one price, so the pump price is almost pure policy. Countries that tax fuel heavily land near the top of the table; oil producers that subsidise it land at the bottom, sometimes below what it costs to refine. The spread between the cheapest and most expensive country here is wider than for any other item in the game.
The numbers
| Country | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | $0.43 | 21.98 EGP | 14 min |
| Saudi Arabia | $0.62 | 2.33 SAR | 3 min |
| Indonesia | $0.74 | 13,348 IDR | 20 min |
| Vietnam | $0.86 | 22,524 VND | 18 min |
| United Arab Emirates | $0.87 | 3.2 AED | 3 min |
| United States | $1.01 | 1.01 USD | 2 min |
| India | $1.09 | 104.09 INR | 26 min |
| Japan | $1.09 | 173 JPY | 4 min |
| Canada | $1.17 | 1.64 CAD | 3 min |
| Argentina | $1.22 | 1,815.91 ARS | 21 min |
| Brazil | $1.24 | 6.28 BRL | 17 min |
| China | $1.24 | 8.39 CNY | 14 min |
| South Korea | $1.25 | 1,798 KRW | 5 min |
| Australia | $1.28 | 1.82 AUD | 3 min |
| Turkey | $1.30 | 61.81 TRY | 20 min |
| Thailand | $1.33 | 44.48 THB | 23 min |
| South Africa | $1.42 | 23.5 ZAR | 19 min |
| Mexico | $1.50 | 26.01 MXN | 23 min |
| Poland | $1.63 | 6.1 PLN | 12 min |
| Spain | $1.74 | 1.51 EUR | 9 min |
| New Zealand | $1.75 | 2.98 NZD | 5 min |
| Sweden | $1.88 | 17.92 SEK | 5 min |
| United Kingdom | $1.97 | 1.46 GBP | 7 min |
| Italy | $2.06 | 1.79 EUR | 9 min |
| Ireland | $2.07 | 1.8 EUR | 6 min |
| Germany | $2.10 | 1.82 EUR | 6 min |
| Portugal | $2.10 | 1.82 EUR | 14 min |
| France | $2.12 | 1.84 EUR | 7 min |
| Norway | $2.27 | 21.54 NOK | 5 min |
| Switzerland | $2.28 | 1.84 CHF | 4 min |
| Netherlands | $2.43 | 2.11 EUR | 7 min |
| Singapore | $2.47 | 3.17 SGD | 9 min |
Source: Numbeo's country price rankings for 'Gasoline (1 litre)' in the transportation category, retrieved August 2026. Full methodology.
What the spread shows
The cheapest gasoline in the game is in Egypt at $0.43; the most expensive is in Singapore at $2.47. That is a 5.7× difference for the same thing, against a median of $1.38 across all 32 countries.
Ranking by earnings instead of dollars rearranges the table. India has the longest wait, about 26 minutes of the average local wage, while in United States it is roughly 2 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.
In the U.S. since 1980
For how this price moved over time rather than across countries, see gas prices by year, the U.S. city average every year since 1980.
Other items
Why this costs what it costs
- Petrol is the same liquid everywhere and costs whatever a government wantsCrude oil trades at one world price. Pump prices differ by a factor of forty. Nearly all of that gap is tax in one direction and subsidy in the other.
- A fifth of what you paid was tax, and you never saw the lineConsumption tax is the largest single wedge between two countries' prices for an identical product, and the one shoppers are least able to see.
- Four things set every price, and only one of them is the productThe same can, the same recipe, the same machine that made it, and a five-fold price gap between two countries. What follows is what actually sits in that difference.