Prices in United Kingdom 🇬🇧
What 7 everyday items cost in United Kingdom, shown in US dollars, in GBP, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
The UK's prices sit between the eurozone and North America. Fuel duty plus VAT accounts for well over half the pump price, and most supermarket food is zero-rated for VAT, which is why the gap between British food and fuel prices is unusually wide.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.08 | 5.29 GBP | 24 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.55 | 1.25 GBP | 5 min |
| Cappuccino | $4.83 | 3.59 GBP | 16 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.69 | 1.26 GBP | 6 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $4.12 | 3.06 GBP | 14 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $3.03 | 2.25 GBP | 10 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.97 | 1.46 GBP | 7 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 United Kingdom compares
Relative to the rest of the game, United Kingdom is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 4th out of 33 countries at $7.08 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for milk at $1.69, which is 14th of 32 — only 18 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 24 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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