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Prices in Pakistan 🇵🇰

In Pakistan, mobile data costs $0.12, cigarettes costs $0.83 and healthy diet costs $0.92. That is 9 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in PKR, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Pakistani hourly earnings are among the lowest in the game, so the work-time column is where this country's prices actually live: figures that read as cheap in dollars are not cheap to the person paying them. Sales tax on goods is 18%, high for the income level, and provinces levy their own 15% to 16% on services on top. Successive devaluations and the energy tariff increases required under IMF programmes have pushed electricity and fuel up faster than wages, which is why those two rows sit oddly high against everything else here.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$3.861,080 PKR7.7 h
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)no data
Diesel (1 litre)$1.41390.42 PKR2.8 h
Electricity (100 kWh)$5.801,599 PKR11.6 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$0.83230 PKR1.7 h
Beer (330ml)$1.33369.6 PKR2.7 h
Spirits (750ml bottle)$6.311,759.5 PKR12.6 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$1.08300 PKR2.2 h
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.12—14 min
A day's healthy diet$0.92257.39 PKR1.8 h

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 Pakistan compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Pakistan is most expensive for beer, where it ranks 15th out of 42 countries at $1.33, against a global median of $1.00.

It is relatively cheapest for healthy diet at $0.92, which is 48th of 49, only 1 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 12.6 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 Pakistan: 18% sales tax on goods; 15–16% on services, set by province. Where these come from.

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Pakistan comes up in the daily puzzle roughly once every 49 days, paired with a different item each time. Play today's puzzle or browse the archive of past rounds.

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Pakistan prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Pakistan?
Pricele publishes 9 everyday prices for Pakistan, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.12, Cigarettes $0.83, Healthy diet $0.92. 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 Pakistan?
Pakistan uses the PKR. 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 Pakistan list?
Of the 9 items priced for Pakistan, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.12 and the most expensive is Spirits at $6.31. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Pakistan 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, 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 Pakistan.