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Prices in Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

In Dominican Republic, mobile data costs $0.79, diesel costs $1.16 and beer costs $1.28. That is 8 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in DOP, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

The Dominican Republic is a tourism and remittance economy, and its prices split accordingly: local staples are cheap, while anything imported or sold into the resort trade is priced closer to US levels. ITBIS, the VAT, is 18% but exempts a list of basic foods. Fuel is priced weekly by the government, which has repeatedly held pump prices flat with subsidies when world oil prices rose. Electricity has the opposite problem: the distribution companies lose a large share of what they buy to theft and non-payment, and the state covers the difference, so household tariffs sit below what the power actually costs.

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)$1.5494.6 DOP32 min
Diesel (1 litre)$1.1671.54 DOP24 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$11.10680.9 DOP3.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$5.87349 DOP2.0 h
Beer (330ml)$1.2876.08 DOP26 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$12.61750 DOP4.3 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)no data
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.7916 min
A day's healthy diet$2.15133.32 DOP44 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 Dominican Republic compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Dominican Republic is most expensive for beer, where it ranks 22nd out of 52 countries at $1.28, against a global median of $1.12.

It is relatively cheapest for diesel at $1.16, which is 49th of 61, only 12 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is spirits, at roughly 4.3 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 Dominican Republic: 18% ITBIS. Ordinary groceries: basic foods exempt. Where these come from.

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Dominican Republic prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Dominican Republic?
Pricele publishes 8 everyday prices for Dominican Republic, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.79, Diesel $1.16, Beer $1.28. 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 Dominican Republic?
Dominican Republic uses the DOP. 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 Dominican Republic list?
Of the 8 items priced for Dominican Republic, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.79 and the most expensive is Spirits at $12.61. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Dominican Republic 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), 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 Dominican Republic.