Prices in Vietnam 🇻🇳

In Vietnam, mobile data costs $0.29, coca-cola costs $0.45 and beer costs $0.57. That is 14 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in VND, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Vietnam is among the cheapest countries in the game across nearly every item. It is also the world's second-largest coffee producer, which shows up directly in café prices. Dairy is the usual exception for a country without a large domestic herd. VAT is 10% with foodstuffs at a reduced 5%, a modest wedge by regional standards. What makes Vietnam interesting in this table is that its cheapness is mostly genuine production advantage rather than a weak currency or a subsidy. The coffee is cheap because it is grown next door, which is the simplest explanation for a price anywhere on this site.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$2.89	76,000 VND	62 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	$0.45	11,000 VND	10 min
Cappuccino	$1.63	42,691 VND	35 min
Milk (1 litre)	$1.45	37,977 VND	31 min
Eggs (dozen)	$1.50	39,286 VND	32 min
Apples (1 kg)	$2.81	73,597 VND	60 min
Gasoline (1 litre)	$0.86	22,524 VND	18 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.05	27,500 VND	23 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$7.80	205,000 VND	2.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$0.87	21,115 VND	19 min
Beer (330ml)	$0.57	13,750 VND	12 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$14.43	350,000 VND	5.2 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.29	—	6 min
A day's healthy diet	$1.37	33,090.91 VND	29 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 Vietnam compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Vietnam is most expensive for apples, where it ranks 17th out of 32 countries at $2.81, against a global median of $2.84.

It is relatively cheapest for cigarettes at $0.87, which is 45th of 49, only 4 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 5.2 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 Vietnam: 10% VAT. Ordinary groceries: 5% on foodstuffs. Where these come from.

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Vietnam prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Vietnam?

Pricele publishes 14 everyday prices for Vietnam, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.29, Coca-Cola $0.45, Beer $0.57. 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 Vietnam?

Vietnam uses the VND. 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 Vietnam list?

Of the 14 items priced for Vietnam, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.29 and the most expensive is Spirits at $14.43. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Vietnam prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, Seed estimate, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, 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), 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 Vietnam.