The geographic spread dossier · PW-IDX-GASOLINE
What gasoline costs, country by country.
The same regular unleaded, per liter priced across 20 countries, normalized to USD and shown as a share of the local minimum wage. This dossier leads with the geographic spread — what you pay where it is cheapest versus priciest. Every figure is a dated reading from 2026-03-23, not a live quote.
- Subject
- Gasoline Index · Regular unleaded, per liter
- The spread
- What the same item costs where it is cheapest vs. priciest, and the multiple between them.
- Affordability
- The USD price as a share of the local monthly minimum wage.
- Normalization
- Local prices converted to USD at a dated FX rate (2026-03-23).
- Tier
- Source-backed (read at the source, dated), not a live feed.
Figures are recorded readings from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, normalized to USD at a dated FX rate and dated 2026-03-23 — not a live feed, not monitored, not promised-current. Prices move with currencies and local markets; treat this as a dated snapshot, not financial advice.
The three figures that frame it
Where it is cheapest, the middle of the pack, and where it is priciest — the two ends of the spread plus the median.
- Cheapest on file $0.46 🇪🇬 Egypt Best price
- Median $1.26 🇹🇷 Turkey Middle of 20
- Priciest on file $2.61 🇸🇬 Singapore High end of the gap
- Most affordable 0.04% of min wage 🇨🇭 Switzerland Smallest share of a wage
- Countries on file 20 all with a reading Coverage
- Least affordable 1.77% of min wage 🇮🇳 India Largest share of a wage
Section · The country ledger
Every country on file, read the same way
Each country is entered with its local price, the USD-normalized reading, the time to afford it at the local median income, and its share of the local minimum wage. The cheapest row is shaded; the priciest is marked. Click a column to re-sort.
| Rank | Country | Local price | USD | Time to afford | % of min wage | Affordability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt · cheapest | EGP 24.00 | $0.46 | 32 min of work | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | Indonesia | IDR 10,000 | $0.59 | 35 min of work | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 3 | Nigeria | NGN 1,245 | $0.90 | 136 min of work | 1.76% | 1.76% |
| 4 | United States | USD 0.98 | $0.98 | 2 min of work | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | India | INR 94.77 | $1.01 | 61 min of work | 1.77% | 1.77% |
| 6 | Philippines | PHP 62.55 | $1.04 | 55 min of work | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 7 | Japan | JPY 170 | $1.07 | 4 min of work | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Argentina | ARS 1,533 | $1.11 | 29 min of work | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 9 | South Korea | KRW 1,724 | $1.14 | 5 min of work | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Thailand | THB 41.05 | $1.25 | 38 min of work | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 11 | Turkey | TRY 56.06 | $1.26 | 20 min of work | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | Brazil | BRL 6.65 | $1.27 | 27 min of work | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 13 | Canada | CAD 1.99 | $1.44 | 4 min of work | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 14 | Mexico | MXN 26.41 | $1.49 | 35 min of work | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 15 | Australia | AUD 2.20 | $1.53 | 4 min of work | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 16 | Poland | PLN 6.18 | $1.67 | 15 min of work | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 17 | United Kingdom | GBP 1.50 | $1.89 | 6 min of work | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 18 | Switzerland | CHF 1.68 | $2.12 | 4 min of work | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 19 | Germany | EUR 2.06 | $2.38 | 7 min of work | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 20 | Singapore · priciest | SGD 3.35 | $2.61 | 7 min of work | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Local prices are converted to USD at the recorded FX rate (2026-03-23). Time to afford is the price ÷ the local hourly median income (8-hour day, 22 days/month), from ILOSTAT. Affordability % is the USD price ÷ the local monthly minimum wage. A country with no reading on file is listed but not ranked.
Section · How this file is built
Method & provenance
One recorded reading
Figures come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, read for this index and dated 2026-03-23. It is a point-in-time reading held as a dated reference, not a live feed.
Normalized to USD
Local prices are converted to USD at a dated FX rate (2026-03-23) so countries are comparable. Currency moves after that date are not reflected.
Affordability, not just price
The same USD price is a different burden depending on local wages. The share-of-minimum-wage column and time-to-afford put each price next to what people there actually earn.
Not advice
Prices move with currencies and local markets. Treat this as a dated snapshot for comparison, not financial advice or a guide to arbitrage across borders.
Prices and the as-read date are real values from the PriceWorld indexes dataset, read 2026-03-23 from GlobalPetrolPrices.com. Nothing here is presented as live, monitored, or promised-current. Confirm the current figure with the source before relying on it.