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Prices in Peru 🇵🇪

In Peru, vape liquid costs $0.27, mobile data costs $0.45 and diesel costs $1.80. That is 9 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in PEN, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Peru is a mining exporter with one of the steadier currencies in Latin America, which makes its dollar figures more durable than Argentina's or Colombia's. Domestic food is cheap and largely home-grown, and Lima's much-praised restaurant scene is invisible in national averages. The IGV runs at 18% and applies broadly, so the consumption-tax wedge on ordinary purchases is higher than in Mexico, where food is zero-rated. Pump prices are close to unsubsidised, which puts Peruvian fuel above its Andean neighbours and roughly at world levels.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$5.0316.9 PEN1.5 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)$1.806.04 PEN33 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$19.1064.3 PEN5.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$4.3816.3 PEN79 min
Beer (330ml)hidden, in play right now
Spirits (750ml bottle)$6.0322.43 PEN1.8 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$0.271 PEN5 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.45—8 min
A day's healthy diet$2.408.57 PEN44 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 Peru compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Peru is most expensive for diesel, where it ranks 18th out of 49 countries at $1.80, against a global median of $1.55.

It is relatively cheapest for spirits at $6.03, which is 33rd of 42, only 9 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 5.8 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 Peru: 18% IGV. Where these come from.

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Peru prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Peru?
Pricele publishes 8 everyday prices for Peru, each from a named source. Vape liquid $0.27, Mobile data $0.45, Diesel $1.80. 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 Peru?
Peru uses the PEN. 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 Peru list?
Of the 8 items priced for Peru, the cheapest is Vape liquid at $0.27 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $19.10. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Peru 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 Peru.