Gasoline (1 litre) prices by country
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.
Below, one litre priced in 32 countries, cheapest first, in US dollars and in local currency.
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.