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Prices in Egypt 🇪🇬

In Egypt, coca-cola costs $0.40, diesel costs $0.41 and gasoline costs $0.43. That is 16 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in EGP, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Egypt has the cheapest fuel in the game by a wide margin, and the state has subsidised petrol for decades, though it has been cutting those subsidies under IMF programmes since 2016. Successive devaluations of the pound also make Egyptian prices look very low once converted to dollars. VAT is 14% with several basic foods exempt, but in a country where the currency has repeatedly halved against the dollar, the exchange rate does more to the numbers on this page than the tax code does. Egyptian figures are best read alongside the date they were collected.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$2.65125 EGP88 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$0.4019 EGP13 min
Cappuccino$1.4875.66 EGP49 min
Milk (1 litre)$0.8844.99 EGP29 min
Eggs (dozen)$1.3468.51 EGP45 min
Apples (1 kg)$1.6081.8 EGP53 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$0.4321.98 EGP14 min
Diesel (1 litre)$0.4120.5 EGP14 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$2.10107 EGP70 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)$1.2058.4 EGP40 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$0.8240 EGP27 min
Beer (330ml)$0.9345 EGP31 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$4.53220 EGP2.5 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$4.71228.57 EGP2.6 h
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.65—22 min
A day's healthy diet$0.9546.77 EGP32 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 Egypt compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Egypt is most expensive for vape liquid, where it ranks 2nd out of 20 countries at $4.71, against a global median of $2.88.

It is relatively cheapest for diesel at $0.41, which is 49th of 49, only 0 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is vape liquid, at roughly 2.6 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 Egypt: 14% VAT. Ordinary groceries: several basic foods exempt. Where these come from.

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Egypt prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Egypt?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for Egypt, each from a named source. Coca-Cola $0.40, Diesel $0.41, Gasoline $0.43. 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 Egypt?
Egypt uses the EGP. 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 Egypt list?
Of the 16 items priced for Egypt, the cheapest is Coca-Cola at $0.40 and the most expensive is Vape liquid at $4.71. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Egypt prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, Seed estimate, 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), WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (cheapest disposable device), 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 Egypt.