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Prices in Jordan 🇯🇴

In Jordan, mobile data costs $0.76, diesel costs $1.27 and healthy diet costs $1.55. That is 9 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in JOD, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

The Jordanian dinar has been pegged to the US dollar since 1995, so dollar prices here move with Jordanian costs rather than with an exchange rate. Jordan imports most of its food and nearly all of its energy, and fuel prices are reset monthly by a government committee to track world prices. The 16% general sales tax works like a VAT, with some goods taxed at reduced rates. Hourly earnings are modest against prices that are high for the region, so the work-time column is where Jordan stands out. It is also one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, which shapes what is grown locally and what is imported.

What things cost

ItemUSDWork time
Big Mac$3.532.5 JOD82 min
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)$1.921.36 JOD44 min
Diesel (1 litre)$1.270.9 JOD29 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$9.006.4 JOD3.5 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$3.382.4 JOD78 min
Beer (330ml)$3.242.3 JOD75 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$36.2225.71 JOD14.0 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)no data
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.7618 min
A day's healthy diet$1.551.1 JOD36 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 Jordan compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Jordan is most expensive for beer, where it ranks 1st out of 52 countries at $3.24, against a global median of $1.12.

It is relatively cheapest for healthy diet at $1.55, which is 51st of 61, only 10 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 14.0 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 Jordan: 16% general sales tax. Where these come from.

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Jordan prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Jordan?
Pricele publishes 9 everyday prices for Jordan, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.76, Diesel $1.27, Healthy diet $1.55. 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 Jordan?
Jordan uses the JOD. 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 Jordan list?
Of the 9 items priced for Jordan, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.76 and the most expensive is Spirits at $36.22. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Jordan 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, 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 Jordan.