Prices in Brazil 🇧🇷

In Brazil, mobile data costs $0.40, beer costs $0.49 and milk costs $1.07. That is 15 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in BRL, and as roughly how long someone on 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. Brazilian indirect tax is the one case in this table where no single rate can be quoted honestly, because federal, state and municipal levies overlap, and the effective burden on an identical item genuinely differs between states. That complexity is why the Brazilian rows here should be read as national approximations, and why a Brazilian reader may find their own supermarket disagrees.

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
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.28	6.51 BRL	17 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$18.10	92.1 BRL	4.0 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$20.70	105.1 BRL	4.6 h
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$1.50	8.5 BRL	20 min
Beer (330ml)	$0.49	2.79 BRL	7 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$3.43	19.43 BRL	46 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.40	—	5 min
A day's healthy diet	$2.26	12.61 BRL	30 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 Brazil compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Brazil is most expensive for natural gas (100 kWh), where it ranks 2nd out of 31 countries at $20.70, against a global median of $9.80.

It is relatively cheapest for cigarettes at $1.50, which is 43rd of 49, only 6 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is natural gas (100 kWh), at roughly 4.6 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 Brazil: multiple overlapping federal, state and municipal levies. Where these come from.

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Brazil prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Brazil?

Pricele publishes 15 everyday prices for Brazil, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.40, Beer $0.49, Milk $1.07. 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 Brazil?

Brazil uses the BRL. 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 Brazil list?

Of the 15 items priced for Brazil, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.40 and the most expensive is Natural gas (100 kWh) at $20.70. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Brazil prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, Burger Parity, 2026, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol 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 Brazil.