Prices in Chile 🇨🇱

In Chile, mobile data costs $0.64, beer costs $0.75 and diesel costs $1.32. That is 9 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in CLP, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Chile is the most open economy in South America by tariff levels, so imported goods land closer to world prices here than in its neighbours, and the peso is a cleaner conversion than the Argentine or Colombian equivalent. The tax story is unusually simple: 19% IVA on essentially everything, with no reduced band for food, which is rare in Latin America and means the state takes the same cut of a bottle of beer as of a litre of diesel. Pump prices are smoothed by MEPCO, a stabilisation mechanism that damps the weekly moves other countries pass straight through.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$5.42	4,790 CLP	52 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	no data
Cappuccino	no data
Milk (1 litre)	no data
Eggs (dozen)	no data
Apples (1 kg)	no data
Gasoline (1 litre)	no data
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.32	1,214.67 CLP	13 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$29.60	27,301.4 CLP	4.7 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$13.00	12,032 CLP	2.1 h
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$3.92	3,750 CLP	38 min
Beer (330ml)	$0.75	721.29 CLP	7 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$7.31	6,990 CLP	70 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.64	—	6 min
A day's healthy diet	$2.80	2,665.92 CLP	27 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 Chile compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Chile is most expensive for electricity (100 kWh), where it ranks 8th out of 48 countries at $29.60, against a global median of $20.65.

It is relatively cheapest for diesel at $1.32, which is 34th of 49, only 15 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 4.7 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 Chile: 19% IVA. Where these come from.

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Chile prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Chile?

Pricele publishes 9 everyday prices for Chile, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.64, Beer $0.75, Diesel $1.32. 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 Chile?

Chile uses the CLP. 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 Chile list?

Of the 9 items priced for Chile, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.64 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $29.60. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Chile prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, 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 Chile.