Prices in India 🇮🇳

In India, mobile data costs $0.16, milk costs $0.64 and coca-cola costs $0.82. That is 13 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in INR, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

India has the cheapest Big Mac in the Economist's index, though the Indian sandwich is a Maharaja Mac, since McDonald's does not sell beef there, which is the one place the index's like-for-like premise breaks down. Local staples are inexpensive; imported and branded goods are not. GST is tiered from 5% to 28% with a general rate of 18%, and most fresh unprocessed food is nil-rated, so the tax system draws a hard line between what comes from a farm and what comes from a factory. That line is visible directly in this table: the unbranded items sit near the bottom of the global range while the branded ones climb toward the middle.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$2.51	227 INR	60 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	$0.82	70 INR	20 min
Cappuccino	$1.70	162.34 INR	41 min
Milk (1 litre)	$0.64	61.12 INR	15 min
Eggs (dozen)	$0.91	86.9 INR	22 min
Apples (1 kg)	$1.94	185.26 INR	47 min
Gasoline (1 litre)	$1.09	104.09 INR	26 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.03	98.33 INR	25 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$7.10	678 INR	2.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$4.80	458 INR	1.9 h
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$2.27	190 INR	54 min
Beer (330ml)	no data
Spirits (750ml bottle)	no data
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.16	—	4 min
A day's healthy diet	$0.93	81.4 INR	22 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 India compares

Relative to the rest of the game, India is most expensive for natural gas (100 kWh), where it ranks 23rd out of 31 countries at $4.80, against a global median of $9.80.

It is relatively cheapest for healthy diet at $0.93, which is 47th of 49, only 2 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 2.8 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 India: GST tiered 5% to 28%, general rate 18%. Ordinary groceries: most fresh unprocessed food nil-rated. Where these come from.

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India prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in India?

Pricele publishes 13 everyday prices for India, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.16, Milk $0.64, Coca-Cola $0.82. 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 India?

India uses the INR. 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 India list?

Of the 13 items priced for India, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.16 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $7.10. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's India prices come from?

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