Prices in Brazil 🇧🇷
What 7 everyday items cost in Brazil, shown in US dollars, in BRL, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Brazil grows a great deal of what it eats, so staples are cheap in dollar terms even though local incomes are modest. Coffee is the clearest example: Brazil is the world's largest producer, and a café cappuccino costs a fraction of the European price.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $4.45 | 23.9 BRL | 59 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.11 | 6.5 BRL | 15 min |
| Cappuccino | $2.06 | 10.44 BRL | 27 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.07 | 5.42 BRL | 14 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $2.27 | 11.5 BRL | 30 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.25 | 11.4 BRL | 30 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.24 | 6.28 BRL | 17 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Brazil compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Brazil is most expensive for coca-cola, where it ranks 20th out of 33 countries at $1.11 — against a global median of $1.37.
It is relatively cheapest for cappuccino at $2.06, which is 27th of 32 — only 5 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 59 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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