Prices in Norway 🇳🇴
What 7 everyday items cost in Norway, shown in US dollars, in NOK, and as roughly how long someone earning 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.
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 |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. 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 big mac, where it ranks 2nd out of 33 countries at $7.52 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for apples at $3.75, which is 6th of 32 — only 26 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 16 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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