Prices in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
What 7 everyday items cost in Saudi Arabia, shown in US dollars, in SAR, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Saudi Arabia has some of the cheapest fuel in the game — domestic petrol is priced well below world markets, though the kingdom has raised it repeatedly since 2016 as part of budget reform. Food is largely imported and priced closer to global levels.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.07 | 19 SAR | 25 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.80 | 3 SAR | 4 min |
| Cappuccino | $3.70 | 13.88 SAR | 19 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.71 | 6.41 SAR | 9 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $2.57 | 9.64 SAR | 13 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.22 | 8.33 SAR | 11 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $0.62 | 2.33 SAR | 3 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 Saudi Arabia compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Saudi Arabia is most expensive for milk, where it ranks 12th out of 32 countries at $1.71 — against a global median of $1.54.
It is relatively cheapest for gasoline at $0.62, which is 31st of 32 — 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 big mac, at roughly 25 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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