Prices in Norway 🇳🇴

In Norway, beer costs $1.81, coca-cola costs $2.18 and gasoline costs $2.27. That is 14 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in NOK, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Norway is an oil exporter with some of the most expensive petrol in the world, which is not a contradiction: fuel is heavily taxed as climate policy, and the revenue funds the sovereign wealth fund. Food is expensive too, protected by high agricultural tariffs. VAT is 25%, among the highest anywhere, though food is charged at a reduced 15%, which is still higher than the standard rate of several countries in this table. Norway is where the two halves of this dataset diverge most: it has the resources to be a cheap place to drive and has deliberately chosen not to be.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$7.52	76 NOK	16 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	$2.18	24 NOK	5 min
Cappuccino	$5.57	52.86 NOK	12 min
Milk (1 litre)	$2.45	23.25 NOK	5 min
Eggs (dozen)	$5.19	49.25 NOK	11 min
Apples (1 kg)	$3.75	35.59 NOK	8 min
Gasoline (1 litre)	$2.27	21.54 NOK	5 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$2.34	21.99 NOK	5 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$21.00	197.3 NOK	43 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$15.31	167 NOK	32 min
Beer (330ml)	$1.81	19.8 NOK	4 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$34.72	378.75 NOK	72 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$4.07	—	8 min
A day's healthy diet	$4.52	47.04 NOK	9 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 Norway compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Norway is most expensive for cappuccino, where it ranks 2nd out of 32 countries at $5.57, against a global median of $3.67.

It is relatively cheapest for electricity (100 kWh) at $21.00, which is 24th of 48, only 24 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 72 minutes 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 Norway: 25% MVA. Ordinary groceries: 15% on food. Where these come from.

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Norway prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Norway?

Pricele publishes 14 everyday prices for Norway, each from a named source. Beer $1.81, Coca-Cola $2.18, Gasoline $2.27. 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 Norway?

Norway uses the NOK. 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 Norway list?

Of the 14 items priced for Norway, the cheapest is Beer at $1.81 and the most expensive is Spirits at $34.72. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Norway prices come from?

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