Vape e-liquid (1 ml) prices by country
Vape e-liquid (1 ml) costs from $0.27 in Peru to $12.66 in New Zealand, across 20 countries priced in US dollars and in local currency.
The sparsest item in the game, and for a reason worth knowing: a country is only listed if disposable vapes are legally on sale there. Several of the largest markets in this table ban or restrict them outright, so an empty row is a policy fact rather than a gap in the data.
The numbers
| Country | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peru | $0.27 | 1 PEN | 5 min |
| United Arab Emirates | $0.84 | 3.08 AED | 3 min |
| Saudi Arabia | $1.02 | 3.83 SAR | 5 min |
| Pakistan | $1.08 | 300 PKR | 2.2 h |
| Lebanon | $1.21 | 108,280.8 LBP | 23 min |
| South Africa | $1.74 | 31.66 ZAR | 23 min |
| Romania | $1.81 | 8.33 RON | 14 min |
| Switzerland | $2.38 | 2.1 CHF | 4 min |
| France | $2.57 | 2.37 EUR | 9 min |
| Italy | $2.65 | 2.45 EUR | 11 min |
| Portugal | $3.11 | 2.88 EUR | 21 min |
| Netherlands | $3.22 | 2.98 EUR | 10 min |
| Sweden | $3.22 | 34.5 SEK | 9 min |
| Ireland | $3.36 | 3.1 EUR | 10 min |
| Czechia | $3.38 | 79.5 CZK | 19 min |
| Poland | $3.39 | 13.45 PLN | 25 min |
| Germany | $3.78 | 3.5 EUR | 10 min |
| Spain | $3.79 | 3.5 EUR | 19 min |
| Egypt | $4.71 | 228.57 EGP | 2.6 h |
| New Zealand | $12.66 | 21.43 NZD | 35 min |
Source: The WHO Global Health Observatory's 2024 tobacco and nicotine survey, which prices the cheapest closed disposable vape available in each country and standardises it to 1ml of e-liquid. Full methodology.
What the spread shows
The cheapest vape liquid in the game is in Peru at $0.27; the most expensive is in New Zealand at $12.66. That is a 46.9× difference for the same thing, against a median of $2.88 across all 20 countries.
Ranking by earnings instead of dollars rearranges the table. Egypt has the longest wait, about 2.6 hours of the average local wage, while in United Arab Emirates it is roughly 3 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.