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Prices in Bosnia & Herzegovina 🇧🇦

In Bosnia & Herzegovina, mobile data costs $1.03, gasoline costs $1.96 and diesel costs $2.15. That is 6 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in BAM, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Bosnia and Herzegovina runs a currency board: the convertible mark has been fixed to the euro since the board was set up, at the old Deutsche Mark rate, so its dollar prices move with the euro rather than with anything local. It also has one of the simplest consumption taxes in Europe, a single 17% VAT with no reduced band, so a loaf of bread is taxed exactly like a bottle of beer. Household electricity is cheap, generated by state-owned utilities from domestic coal and hydro and sold at regulated tariffs. Wages are among the lowest in Europe, which is what the work-time column is for.

What things cost

ItemUSDWork time
Big Macno data
Coca-Cola (330ml can)no data
Cappuccinono data
Milk (1 litre)no data
Eggs (dozen)no data
Apples (1 kg)no data
Gasoline (1 litre)$1.963.42 BAM20 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.153.75 BAM22 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$12.9022.5 BAM2.2 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$3.606.5 BAM37 min
Beer (330ml)no data
Spirits (750ml bottle)no data
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)no data
Mobile data (1 GB)$1.0311 min
A day's healthy diet$2.965.13 BAM31 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Bosnia & Herzegovina compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Bosnia & Herzegovina is most expensive for diesel, where it ranks 18th out of 61 countries at $2.15, against a global median of $1.59.

It is relatively cheapest for cigarettes at $3.60, which is 39th of 61, only 22 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 2.2 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Bosnia & Herzegovina: 17% PDV, a single rate. Ordinary groceries: no reduced rate for food. Where these come from.

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Bosnia & Herzegovina prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Bosnia & Herzegovina?
Pricele publishes 6 everyday prices for Bosnia & Herzegovina, each from a named source. Mobile data $1.03, Gasoline $1.96, Diesel $2.15. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.
What currency is used in Bosnia & Herzegovina?
Bosnia & Herzegovina uses the BAM. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.
What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Bosnia & Herzegovina list?
Of the 6 items priced for Bosnia & Herzegovina, the cheapest is Mobile data at $1.03 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $12.90. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Bosnia & Herzegovina prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 19-Oct-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, March 2026, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Bosnia & Herzegovina.